Langley Kenlis (2 results)

Orange hardback cloth cover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. VG: in very good condition with rubbed and chipped dust jacket. Slight foxing. 190mm x 130mm (7" x 5"). 347pp.

Cloth. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First edition. A publisher's file copy of the first edition of Kenlis Langley's vanishingly scarce children's science fiction novel, in the original dust wrapper. The first edition, first impression of this very scarce work.In the publisher's original unclipped dust wrapper.Stamped 'File Copy, Please Return', to the front free endpaper.This juvenile novel for boys is set in a lost world discovered by boy adventurers in North Africa, and is the work of Indian-born soldier and author Lieutenant-Colonel Kenlis Langley Stevenson.Illustrated with a frontispiece by Hon. Florence Fremantle.With four pages of advertisements to the rear.A vanishingly scarce work. In the publisher's original cloth binding, with price unclipped dust wrapper. Bumping to back strip head and tail, with fading to back strip tail. Spotting and handling marks to text block fore edge. Sunning to dust wrapper back strip, with price label to back strip. Wraps bright. Small closed tear to tail of front wrap. Light edgewear to back strip tail, with two closed tears to back strip head. Internally, binding strained. Stamp to front free endpaper. Pages bright, with light spotting and handling marks. Very Good. Hon. Florence Fremantle (illustrator). book.…