Jack Hardy or A Hundred Years Ago. by Strang, Herbert - 1910

E-314: Henry Frowde/Hodder and Stoughton. Very Good. Hardcover. Hardcover. 8vo. Published by Henry Frowde/Hodder and Stoughton, London, UK. 1910. Viii, 232 pages. New Edition. Bound in green decorated cloth boards with titles present to the spine and front board. Boards have light shelf-wear present to the extremities. No ownership marks present. Text is clean and free of marks. Binding tight and solid. The first time Jack Hardy met Mr. Nathaniel Gudgeon was also the occasion of his first visit to Luscombe. It happened in this way. "Good-by, my boy," said his father, as Jack clambered on to the roof of the coach at the White Hart, Southwark, "and be sure you don't forget your Cousin Bastable, or your mother will never forgive you." "All right, father. I'll take a look at him if I get a chance. I say, coachman, you'll let me have a drive?" The coachman could not turn his head, because the collar of his coat was stiff and his neck brawny; but he… Read More

Henry Frowde, 1906. Hardcover. Acceptable. 1906. New Edition. 232 pages. No dust jacket. Red illustrated cloth boards with lettering. Contains colour illustrations. Clean pages and illustrations with noticeable tanning and foxing throughout. More pronounced to free endpapers and pastedowns. Pen inscription to front free endpaper. Minor cracking to gutters, with exposed netting. Binding remains firm. Boards have mild edge-wear with slight rubbing to surfaces and bumping to corners. Lettering is bright and clear. Minor wear marks to boards.

London: Hodder and Stoughton. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1st UK Edn. Hardcover. Red cloth boards, illus of 2 men on front cover, illus of man with sword on spine, corners and head/tail of spine bumped. Boards mottled near edges. Inner hinge splitting. Small booksellers label to front pastedown. Presentation inscription on e/p. Slight foxing to prelims. Black and white tissue guarded frontis. 232pp. CLEAN TIGHT AND BRIGHT. ; 003726; 8vo .

London: Hodder & Stoughton v-viii, 232pp; frontispiece with tissue guard; damp damage to spine, red pictorial boards; previous owner's name with date inside, illustrated; black title to spine, edgewear.. Hard Cover. Fair. Illus. by Rainey, William. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.