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London, Blackie & Son, Limited, 1909 New edition. Hardback, approx 7.5 x 5 inches. In deep blue full calf leather fine binding. With gilt panelled boards, raised banding to spine with gilt decorations, and gilt lettering to spine. Marbled endpapers and page edges. In good condition. Spine slightly sunned with some minor rubbing to ends. Else cover clean and smart. Prize bookplate to front endpaper “Hyme’s College, Kingston-upin-Hull 1911.” Some mild light foxing to prelims and a few inside pages. Else a good clean and tight copy. 352pp. With eight illustrations by Paul Hardy and a Map of Central Europe.

London: Blackie & Son, Limited, 1894. Prolific English novelist and war correspondent George Alfred Henty is best known for his historical adventure stories that were very popular and commercially successful in the late 19th century. Henty wrote 122 works of historical fiction throughout his career, including The Dragon & The Raven (1886), For The Temple (1888), Under Drake's Flag (1883) and In Freedom's Cause (1885) and was considered the most popular boy's author of his day. His publisher, Blackie and Son, estimated in February 1952 that they were producing nearly 150,000 Henty books a year at the height of his popularity, and stated that their records showed they had produced over three and a half million Henty books to date (Feather, The Age of the Novel, 2006).