The English Family Robinson: The Desert Home, The Adventures of A Lost Family in the Wilderness

Captain Mayne Reid

Verlag: Routledge, Warne, & Routledge, London, 1861

Beschreibung

A very scarce UK edition of this charming children's tale of adventure, set in the deserts of America. First published in 1851, this is a very scarce UK edition of this work, billed as a 'New Edition'. The novel is scarce in all editions.Collated, illustrated with ten plates by William Mayne Reid. Lacking two plates. A charming novel in the style of Swiss Family Robinson, in which a family learn to survive in the American desert.The work of Irish-American novelist Thomas Mayne Reid, who wrote a number of adventure novels set mainly in the American West, Mexico, South Africa, the Himalayas, and Jamaica. In the publisher's original cloth binding. Bumping to back strip head and tail, with fading to back strip and perimeters of front board. Hinges strained, but firmly held. Internally, binding significantly strained throughout, with three gatherings working loose, and binding held by one cord only between pages 160 and 161. Pages bright, and generally clean, with instances of spotting. Good Only. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 879F41

Bibliografische Details

Titel: The English Family Robinson: The Desert Home...

Verlag: Routledge, Warne, & Routledge, London

Erscheinungsdatum: 1861

Einband: Cloth

Illustrator: William Harvey

Zustand: Good Only

Art des Buches: book