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NELSON, UNDATED. Hardback. GOOD/No Dust Jacket. THE KINGSTON LIBRARY, PICTURE BOARDS (BOY ON HORSE) BLUE BINDING, GOLD TEXT, SHIP ON THE SPINE, TANNIN/FOXING PRIZE PLATE DATED 1913, GOLD FADING/RUBBED

London: T. Nelson and Sons, 1871. Hardcover. Good Minus. xii, 608 pp. Red boards, faded and worn at corners and top edge. Black border to front board, decorated with black leaf desins within smaller borders. In the center a 3" x 6" elaborate gilt design with book title at bottom amidst a riot of jungle growth, framed by two tall tropical trees, with a delicate, long-tailed, multi-feathered Bird of Paradise, aloft, hovering in the center of the frame. Many lovely illustrations. Fold-out multi-colored map opposite first page of the story (p.13). Edges of boards beveled. Front board partially detached, rear starting.

London: T. Nelson and Sons, 1874 . Cloth. Very Good. 8" by 6". Not Stated. A lovely early edition of W. H. G. Kingston's thrilling adventure novel for children, illustrated throughout. A smart early edition of this work, first published in 1871.Illustrated with a frontispiece, folding colour map, and nineteen plates, alongside further vignette illustrations.This is a charming work for children by William Henry Giles Kingston, a prolific English author of adventure novels for young boys.A thrilling novel about a ship's voyage in the Eastern seas, told in the first person and detailing shipwrecks and adventures with wild animals. In the publisher's original pictorial cloth binding. Bumping to back strip head and tail, otherwise externally very smart. Internally, firmly bound. Pages bright, with light spotting throughout. Very Good