Author: George Manville Fenn
Title: Jack at Sea, or, All Work and No Play Made Him a Dull Boy
Description: London, Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, 1896. Cloth. An uncommon, decoratively bound piece of children's fiction by George Manville Fenn. Written by George Manville Fenn (1831-1909), a prolific English novelist and editor particularly well-known for his juvenile fiction. He penned over one hundred and fifty novels in his time, including 'Coastguard Jack', 'The Dark House', 'Gil the Gunner', 'Sail-Ho!', 'The Queen's Scarlet', 'Captain Jack' and 'Our Soldier Boy&apos.Illustrated by W. H. Oberend, with a frontispiece and three plates besides.Undated; dated from copies on Jisc.In an excellent pictorial cloth binding depicting Jack viewing the horizon with an eyeglass.With a prize bookplate presented to Richard Wright for classwork, dated Christmas 1896.An uncommon and exciting work. In the publisher's original full cloth binding. Externally very smart, with just slight bumping to the extremities and the head and tail of the spine. Prize bookplate to the front pastedown. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are generally bright and clean, with a few spots opposing plates in particular. Very Good Indeed . Ill.: W. H. Oberend. Very Good Indeed .

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