Author: Farjeon,Eleanor and Herbert
Title: HEROES AND HEROINES .. Illustrated by Rosalind Thornycroft
Description: London, Victor Gollancz ltd. 1933 full page color plates [38] + titlepage vignettes in color. . sm.4to [245 x 192mm] pictorial boards with same pictorial illustration to the dust jacket [split to head of spine/lacks lower inch of spine/ dust jacket lacks parts of all four corners and strip along foot of white lower cover and some chipping of top margin of white cover/dust jacket also finger soiled] 79pp Endpapers with a few paint marks as also found on flap of dustjacket,Some finger marks and a few leaves at the end with light foxing. Two TEXT pages have small blue paint mark to lower outer corner. And the verses are carhming and clever. The color plates are in nice bright condition starting with Alexander the Great they include Julius Caesar, William Tell, Joan of Arc, Christopher Columbus, Pocahontas, Napoleon, Buffalo Bill, George Washington etc.

Keywords: historical biography


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