The Ferry House Girls by Marchant, Bessie - 1912

Blackie and Son Limited, 1111. Hardcover. Acceptable. No Edition Remarks. 283 pages. No dust jacket. Blue pictorial boards with black lettering. Contains black and white illustrated plates by W. R. S. Stott. Pages are lightly tanned with moderate foxing to endpapers and text block edges. Prize plate stuck to front free endpaper, with a few small nicks and rub marks along text block edge. Moderate cracking to gutters with exposed netting. Binding remains mostly firm. Water drop through lower page edges. Plates are bright and clear, with slight tanning to edges. Slight folding to rear endpaper. Boards have light shelf-wear with mild corner bumping and slight crushing to spine ends. Moderate tanning to spine.

Blackie & Son, London, 1912. First Edition. Hardcover (Original Cloth). Fair Condition/No Dust Jacket. Illustrator: W. R. S. Scott. grey end-papers; bound in blue cloth with pictorial front cover & spine in black, white & brown; gilt titles front & spine; monochrome frontis. illustration by W. R. S. Scott with five more throughout; loosely inserted summary of the plot: "Vic and Lu were the motherless daughters of an Australian farmer, who kept the ferry at the Blue River ford. When their father was away, the girls ran off with the wool wagons, to save them from being fired by bushrangers; Vic also endeavouring to save a box containing her father's money, but taking by mistake a similar box, filled with valuable papers belonging to a friend who was under a cloud. Unfortunately, she lost the box, and, lacking his papers, her friend had to undergo much inconvenience and hardship - though the worst of the happenings fell to Vic, who needed all her courage to face the… Read More