cat40a. NY: New Amsterdam Book Company, 1899. Red pictorial cloth, front cover designed in pink & dark blue, lettered in gilt; spine designed in green & black, lettered in gilt. Floral end papers. Jarrold & Sons imprint at base of spine, and Jarrolds device in blind on back cover. Frontispiece & 2 inserted plates. 4 pages of ads for Jarrolds books at rear. A bit of chipping to spine ends, some wear to tips, spine a bit tanned; in general, a bright very good copy, quite attractive. This is an American issue of a London, Jarrold & Sons edition, with a tipped-in American title page. The first edition was published by Jarrold in 1896, and had no illustrations. There was also a Colonial Edition published by Macmillan in 1896. We believe this to be the first American edition, though we have heard a rumour of an American 1899 edition with New York, Jarrold, title page. This is possibly derived from the 1899 Jarrold edition, the 'Fifth Thousand', which was illustrated. A lost-race tale, of a race of classical Greek origin on an island in the South Pacific.

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Bookseller: William Matthews, Bookseller / The Haunted Bookshop (CA)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 52774
Title: The Expedition of Captain Flick. A Story of Adventure.
Author: Hume (Fergus)
Illustrator: cat40a
Book Condition: Used
Quantity Available: 1
Binding: Hardcover
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About William Matthews, Bookseller / The Haunted Bookshop

Established 1976. Open shop in Victoria BC, Open Wed-Sun 11-5. Specialists in weird, fantastic, supernatural,utopian, interplanetary, science fiction and lost race fiction; also rare books, literary first editions, poetry broadsides. Antiquarian maps, charts, views, prints, engravings.

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Spine: The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
Cloth: "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
Device: Especially for older books, a printer's device refers to an identifying mark, also sometimes called a printer's mark, on the...
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Gilt: The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
Chipping: A defect in which small pieces are missing from the edges; fraying or small pieces of paper missing the edge of a paperback, or...