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Chapman & Hall, 1911. New and cheaper edition. A collection of naval tales including two supernatural stories, "The Relapse of the 'Rutland Rakes'" and "The Case of the Wanderer Hulk." There are also three stories featuring the incorrigible Private Pagett.. Hardback. very good hardcover copy, colour inset to front board featuring a soldier and sailor.

London: Chapman & Hall, 1911. Book. Good. Hardcover. New and Cheaper Edition. 8vo. 270 pages. Original tan cloth binding with black lettering and colour on-lay to front board, good with some general wear and rubbing, slighty marked. Contents good and tight, some pages a little foxed, previous owner's neat signature to the front end paper dated Oct. 26th 1912. A good copy..

UK,12mo HB,no dw/dj - as issued(?),1st edn. VG+. No owner inscrptn.Publisher's original bright but minimally grubbed,pictorial black ink blocked illustration of a pair of uniformed men (a marine and a sailor in an Eastern street scene setting) to front cover and a small thumbnail detail (another uniformed male) illustration to spine/backstrip,black blocked letters to both of same on brown cloth boards; with negligible shelf-wear and bumping to edges and corners.Generally sharp-cornered with inevitable but very minor rubbing to corner tips and gentle bumping with reciprocal creases to both head+foot of spine/ backstrip and minus rear free endpaper.Top+fore-edges lightly aged/toned,top with faint,sporadic spotting,fore-edges with slightly more and darker foxing/spotting; contents with sporadic foxing - majority or heaviest,to the prelims up to the first dozen or so pages and to the last ten pages or so at the rear - no dog-ear reading creases to pages' corner tips,would appear unread apart from my own… Read More

London: Chapman and Hall. 1906. First edition, first printing. First edition, first printing. Inscribed presentation copy. Original brown cloth illustrated and titled in black. A good copy, the binding rubbed and bumped with a short tear to the head of the spine. The contents are complete with light spotting to the text block edges and prelims. Inscribed by the author to his wife on the front free endpaper "Marguerite Drury / With the author's love / The Keg / Looe / 28th April 1906" Further details and images for any of the items listed are available on request. Lucius Books welcomes direct contact with our customers.