Tom Bevan
With Haig at the Front, a Story of the Great Fight
London, Collins' Clear Type Press, [1916] . First edition. Cloth. The scarce first edition of children's novelist Tom Bevan's children's adventure novel, set in the First World War, and published before the war was over. Illustrated with twelve plates, including four tipped in colour plates. With further vignette illustrations. Collated, complete.The work of Tom Bevan, a British writer of boys' adventure stories, who authored over twenty children's novels. Originally a schoolteacher, he also wrote non-fiction and educational books for children.With a contemporary inscription to the half title.A brightly illustrated and scarce children's work, intriguing for the manner in which it presents the major global conflict to young readers. In the publisher's original cloth binding. Pictorial onlay to front board. Boards bright, with minor discolouration to back strip and bumping to spine head and tail. Front hinge lightly strained, with board holding firm. Inscription to half title. Internally, firmly bound, with the exception of the frontispiece, which is detached and loosely inserted. Pages generally clean and bright, with instances of light spotting. Good . Ill.: Not Stated. Good .

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Keywords: first world war Walter Bamfylde children's adventure novels children's fiction Walter Bamfylde Not Stated