Whaler 'Round the Horn

by Stephen W. Meader, Edward Shenton

£40 · Offered by Adrian Harrington Rare Books

London: Museum Press, 1953. Children's Adventure Novel FIRST UK EDITION. Octavo 19 x 13cm , pp.viii; 244. With a colour frontispiece, as well as numerous in-text illustrations, by Shenton. Publisher's red cloth with black titles to spine. With the dust-jacket also illustrated by Shenton, priced at 7/6. A touch of spotting to edges and endpapers, otherwise a lovely crisp, clean copy. Clean, bright jacket shows just a touch of rubbing and handling to edges.

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