319 pp. This was a gift from Toronto Maple Leaf player Bobby Baun to the previous owner, with a personalized inscription by Baun and dated July 12th, 1967, just after the Leafs won their last Stanley Cup. Orange cloth lettered in gilt on the spine; yellow upper edge; headband; illustated with uncredited line drawings. Wear at the corners of the dustjacket with a few nicks, chips and short tears around the edges; along with Bobby Baun's gift inscription is the previous owner's name. The stories themselves are uncredited but, according to the dustjacket, the adventure stories are by Leonard Gribble, the escape stories by Bruce Sanders and the wild west stories by Lester Gregory. This collection of true stories contains: Down in the Drink - Holbroke Mahn; A Man and a Mountain - Edward Whymper; The Smile of Jesse James - Jesse Woodson James; Escape from Devil's Island - Rene Belbenoit; The Epic of Sutter's Mill - John Agustus Sutter; The Long Way Home - fleeing the Gestapo; The Pony Express Rides Through - Johnny Frey; Doctor Livingstone, I Presume - Stanley and Livingstone; The Laughing Privateer - Jean Lafitte; The Thousand Mile Western Derby - from Chadron, Nebraska to Chicago and Buffalo Bill Cody's Wild West Show; They Almost Kidnapped the Kaiser - Wilhelm the Second; Mutiny to Order - Popjoy - Stormy Petrel; The Waters of Death - Johnstown Flood 1889; The Aerial Charioteers - Wilbur and Orville Wright; The Secret Links - Polish Underground and the Nazis; A Mountie's Christmas - Corporal Grant and O'Brien; Marooned in Africa - The Grosvenor; The Iron Horse Arrives - Pike's Peak and the Colorado Gold Rush; They Found the Lusitania - Captain Henry B. Russell; Lawdog's Bite - Wyatt Earp; The Cuckoo Leaves the Nest - Prison Camp Escape; The Race to the Pole - Captain Robert Falcon Scott; Newgate Won't Keep Jack - Jack Sheppard; Prince of the Pistoleers - James Butler Wild Bill Hickok; The Human Flotsoam - Captain Eddie Rickenbacker; Slaughter on the Little Big Horn - General George Armstrong Custer; and Twenty-one Notches on His Gun - Billy the Kid. Size: 8vo.

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Title

TRUE ADVENTURE STORIES FOR BOYS

Publisher

Spring Books, London

Publication Date

1961

Binding

Hardcover

Edition

First Edition.

Condition

Very Good

Dust Jacket Condition

Very Good-

Signed

Signed by Owner

Book Type

Book

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