Author: Samuel Rutherford Crockett
Title: Joan of the Sword Hand
Description: New York, Dodd, Mead, and company, 1900. Cloth. A scarce US edition of Crockett's popular adventure-romance, complete with the original illustrations. A scarce US edition of Samuel Rutherford Crockett's 'Joan of the Sword Hand', complete with a striking frontispiece and seven plates by Frank Richards throughout. With a fast moving plot full of secrets, disguises, and unlikely coincidences, this historical adventure-romance is typical of Crockett, who was one of several novelists in Britain targeting the mass readership that began to emerge in the late 19th century. In the original publisher's cloth binding. Externally, generally smart with light rubbing to front and rear boards, and a little colour fading to the spine and fore edge. A little wear to the extremities. Internally, firmly bound. Pages bright and clean, with a little age-toning to front endpapers. Very Good Indeed . Ill.: Frank Richards. Very Good Indeed .

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