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For England, Home, and Beauty
By
Gordon Stables
Reprint, circa 1950, Dean.
Orange covers with black lettering and decoration.
Some wear and marking to covers.
Front endpaper discoloured.
Inner front hinge cracked.
Good condition.
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Kidnapped by Cannibals
By
Gordon Stables
Illustrator
J. Finnemore.
Circa 1915, Blackie and Son Limited.
Dark red pictorial cloth-covered boards.
Gilt decoration on spine.
Olivine edges.
Grey endpapers.
Covers worn and a little soiled.
Corners bumped.
Prize label on front endpaper.
Some foxing to prelims and intermittently to pages edges.
Story is most likely politically incorrect by contemporary stanards.
Good condition.
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The Cruise of the Vengeful
By
Gordon Stables
Circa 1920, J. F. Shaw.
Red pictorial boards with gilt titling.
All edges gilt.
268 pages.
20 pages of adverts.
Spine worn at extremities.
Lower 9cm of spine front edge worn through.
Rear inside hinge cracked.
Pages heavily tanned.
Reading condition.
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The Island of Gold
By
Gordon Stables
Reprint, circa 1928, Thomas Nelson and Sons.
Green decorated boards.
Frontispiece missing.
Prize label on front endpaper.
Some spotting to prelims and foredge.
Good condition.
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The Shell Hunters
By
Gordon Stables
Reprint, 1927, Religious Tract Society.
"Their wild adventures by Sea and Land."
The School Boy's Library series.
Green boards.
Colour frontispiece by Alfred Pearse.
Covers slightly worn.
Good condition.
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Twixt School and College - A Tale of Self-reliance
By
Gordon Stables
Illustrator
W. Parkinson.
Reprint, circa 1910, Blackie.
Red pictorial cloth-covered boards.
Gilt lettering on covers.
352 pages.
Six black and white plates.
16 pages of adverts at rear of book.
Covers clean and bright.
Prize label on front paste down.
Label removed from front endpaper.
Contents VG, pages clean and unmarked.
Good condition.
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Twixt School and College - A Tale of Self-reliance
By
Gordon Stables
Illustrator
W. Parkinson.
Reprint, circa 1931, Blackie.
Octavo.
Green pictorial cloth-covered boards.
Yellow lettering on covers.
352 pages.
Colour frontispiece, and seven black and white plates.
Some wear to covers.
Corners bumped.
Spine faded.
Gift dedication on front paste down.
Contents clean and white, no foxing or spotting.
Good condition.
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Westward with Columbus
By
Gordon Stables
Illustrator
Archibald Webb.
Reprint, 1927, Blackie.
Red pictorial boards.
Colour frontispiece.
Three black and white plates.
Name on front pastedown.
Dedication to previous owner on front endpaper.
VG in other respects.
Good condition.
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Young Peggy McQueen
By
Gordon Stables
Reprint, 1901, Collins.
Red cover, black lettering and decoration.
18 cm x 11cm.
Black and white pictorial endpapers by Charles Robinson.
Colour frontispiece.
Good condition.