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ALLEN, (CHARLES) [CHARLES RICHARDS ALLEN, B. 1885]. The Ship Beautiful. A Two-Fold Tale. With Original Illustrations By George Soper.
London: Warne, (1925). First edition. Green cloth, pictorial spine stamped in gilt and black, pictorial endpapers. (x), (279), (1) pp. 6 black & white plates with captioned tissue guards inserted. Vertical crease to front free endpaper, else a fine copy. Pale green jacket is tanned to panels, flap folds; chip to upper edge of rear panel; small chips, rubbing to spine tips; spine is very browned and hard to read; good. "It is the record of a jolly, lovable little boy with a fitting devotion to cricket, and of his unc le who dwells with a brave heart and a fine mind in the shadow of sadness. The pair are the best of friends, and between them they build up the wonder-story which makes the tale within the tale..It should delight all who love the chronicles of fai ryland and the music of Oberon's Horn." - from the tipped in foreword by Justin Huntly McCarthy. "Transcribed from the braille script of Richard Burnard, and here set forth by C.R. Allen." - verso of dedication leaf. Allen was a New Zealand poet an d novelist, born in Dunedin, educated in Dunedin and at Cambridge. He had to give up his curacy in Dunedin in 1915 owing to the onset of blindness. This book is partially set in Dunedin.
Offered for US$ 66.42 by: Steven Temple Books (ABAC/ILAB) - Book number: 8512
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