Author: G. A. Henty; Charles Reade
Title: The Loss of the Agra & the Two Prisoners
Description: London, Glasgow and Bombay, Blackie & Son Limited, c1920. Cloth. Two lovely pictorially bound works from the Happy Home Library by Blackie & Son, each illustrated throughout. 'The Two Prisoners' from 'A Soldier's Daughter' by G. A. Henty', which was first published in 1902, and 'The Loss of the Agra' from 'Hard Cash', an 1863 novel by Charles Reade.From Blackie's Happy Home Library.Undated; dated from copies held on Jisc.With a prize bookplate to 'The Loss of the Agra' from Salesian School, Burwash, Sussex, awarded to Master Edmund Castelli for General Progress. With stamps from Baptist Sunday School Wellington, Somerset to the front pastedown and endpaper of 'The Two Prisoners&apos.Each work is illustrated throughout.A charming little set of exciting extracts from longer works by G. A. Henty and Charles Reade. In the publisher's original full cloth binding. Externally generally smart, with some minor edgewear to each volume. Prize bookplate to the front pastedown of 'The Loss of the Agra'; ex library bookstamps to the front pastedown and endpaper of 'The Two Prisoners&apos. Internally, binding is occasionally tender, with strains to both front hinges at the title page. Otherwise firmly bound; pages are bright and clean, with just the odd spot. Very Good . Ill.: Not Stated. Very Good .

Keywords: The Two Prisoners G A Henty Charles Reader The Loss of the Agra G A Henty Children's Adventure Fiction Edmund Castelli Not Stated


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