VARIOUS - Fifty True Stories Stranger Than Fiction

London, Odhams Press Ltd. 1948. Hardcover . Book, Odhams Press Ltd. London, 1948. Hardcover. Maroon boards with decorative blind-stamp to front board. Gilt title to spine. Very good condition; minor edgewear. Good, tight binding. Neat previous owner inscription to FFEP and mild foxing to edges of textblock, o/w internally clean and unmarked. Frontispiece illustration ('In bounded the lions'). Contents: Twenty-Four Hours in the Foreign Legion by P. C. Wren; My Escape from the Boers by Winston Churchill; The Plague at Naples by Axel Munthe; The Circus People Take Revenge and The Lions Are Loose! by George Sanger; Major Wilson's Last Fight by Sir Henry Rider Haggard; Facing Death on the Georges Shoals by Weston Martyr; The Trader of Last Notch by Perceval Gibbon; The Death March of Kulop Sumbing by Sir Hugh Clifford; Where Platonic Love May Lead a Man by Mrs. Belloc Lowndes; The End of the Baron by R. McKinley; A Race for a Bride by H. K. Hales; Illegal Cargo, The Greaser Meets His Match and A Narrow Escape From Death by Jo Hallam; The Mystery of the Ear and Mysteries in the South Sea Islands by Capt. Ragnar Nyberg; The Luck of an Earthquake by Fred Walker; How the German Spy Organisation was Smashed by Ex-Superindendent Percy Savage; The Secret of the Cards and The Crossing of the Casitas and The Death Valley - The Gates of Hell by Dare du Bois Phillips; The Red Indians' Dance of Death and Saving a Worthless Life by Bob Dyker; Michael Collins Gambles with Death, Log of a Hell Ship and The Passing of Arthur by Petulengro; Ambush and The Den of Death by 'Tiger' O'Reilly; Tanoy, Prince of Poachers by Leonard Handley; Romance in the Underworld by Trevor Allen; The Hunting of Ngagi by Ashley Gibson & H. F. Fenn; Lynch Law in the West, Dead Men Tell No Tales and On The Spot by James Milligan; The Timber Drogher by 'Shalimar'; The Forest of Illusion by Roger Courtney; Dope in Chinatown by Alec Dixon; A Modern Treasure Hunt by 'Sinbad'; He Laughed at Death by William G. Johnson; An Attack on Pirates by E. J. Trelawney; Trading in Death by Douglas McHardie; Thrills on a Windjammer by A. C. Collodon; White Man's Ground by 'Selim'; The Prince of Escapers by P. L. Richard; Retaliation by Pousse Cailloux; The Whirl of Fate by Major Franz Maske; The Death of Me-Too by Ex-Legionnaire 1384; and The Man Who Snatched a Throne by Amir Habibullah. 22 x 15 cm. 767 pp. Librarius is a small UK-based family business and we pride ourselves on our customer service. Books are honestly described. Orders will be securely wrapped and usually dispatched same or next day. Full refunds will be given if you are unhappy with your purchase and return it within 10 days. Photographs of all of our books are available on request; please feel free to email with any enquiries. Very Good.