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London: James Nisbet & Co. Ltd Edition/date not stated; gift dedication on FEP dated 1909. Blue cloth boards showing light wear/soiling, and sunned on spine, but in very good condition for age. Attractive four-colour illustration on top board and spine; spine slightly cocked. Minor foxing to edges of page block, endpapers, and first few pages; contents otherwise clean and sound. With occasional full-page black and white illustrations, the artist of which is not credited.. hardcover. Very Good/No Dust Jacket. Used.

Mantle Ministries, 1999. Hardcover. Good. Book shows moderate wear/ spine tight, pages clean/ boards slightly scuffed; moderate edge wear/ spine hinges creased/ readers slant

Kessinger Publishing, LLC, 2004-06-17. Paperback. Used:Good.

London: James Nisbet Black titles with coloured ship pictorials to spine and front on red cloth boards. Boards have some light marks to back else unmarked with no wear. Internally there is a coloured decorative prize bookplate to front pastedown and foxing to closed edges and sporadic foxing to some page edges else clean, tight and unmarked. Not dated nor edition stated but probably a late 1890's edition of the work first published in 1885. 256 pages and 16 page publisher's catalogue. 30 illustrations by M. Dudley. One of Robert Michael Ballantyne's (1825-1894) scarcer novels. An attractive copy in very good condition. A1B. Cloth. Very Good/No Jacket. Illus. by Dudley, M. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.

James Nisbet. First Edition. Hard Back. Very Good. No mention of an edition 268 pages plus adverts prize plate dated 1899 Brown decorated cloth 6 illustrations plus frontis

James Nisbet, London., 1885. First edition. Octavo. pp [iv], 268. Extra pictorial title-page, frontispiece and six plates. Two pages of adverts at rear. First issue blue cloth decorated in gilt and black. [From the library of Eric Quayle, author of a biography and a bibliography of Ballantyne.]Presentation copy from the author, inscribed on the front free endpaper: ''To C.A. Ballantyne from her affect. brother the author, Harrow 1884''. The recipient is the author's sister-in-law Christina Alice. After the word ''sister'' in the inscription a different hand has added the words ''-in-law''.Inner hinges cracked. Some damage, repaired, to bottom part of front free endpaper. Covers slightly marked. Spine slightly darkened. Small snags to head and tail of spine. Good. Very scarce.