Ismay Thorn - Captain Geoff - First Edition

THORN, Ismay [pseudonym of Edith Caroline Pollock (1853–1919)].

Captain Geoff.

London: Wells Gardner, Darton & Co., Ltd., no date [1894].

FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 14cm), pp.x; 182; [10] Publisher's advertisements etc. Publisher's brown cloth blocked in red, white, blue and black to spine and upper. Illustrated with a frontispiece and seven further plates.

Generally clean internally, toned and spotted to edges and endpapers. Binding rubbed to extremities and a little worn. Very good.

A classic school prize book in an attractive cloth binding.