Author: Harry Collingwood
Title: Across the Spanish Main: A Tale of the Sea in the Days of Queen Bess
Description: London, Blackie and Son , 1907. First edition. Cloth. A scarce first edition of this nautical adventure story by Harry Collingwood. The first edition of this work, published in 1907. A scarce book.One of Harry Collingwood (pseudonym for William Joseph Cosens Lancaster)'s many adventure books set at sea. Illustrated by William Rainey with four plates and a frontispiece. In the original publisher's cloth binding. Externally smart with some shelf wear and a slight bumping to the head and tail of the spine and extremities. With some minor damp marking to the head of the front and rear boards. Inscribed by a previous owner to the front pastedown, undated. Internally, the binding is firm throughout. The pages are bright and clean with only a faint minor scattered spotting to the odd leaf. Illustrated by William Rainey with four plates and a frontispiece.  Very Good . Ill.: William Rainey. Very Good .

Keywords: first editions harry collingwood illustrated harry collingwood William Rainey


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