London: Peter Lunn, 1946. FIRST THUS. Slim 8vo. Colour plates & numerous b/w illustrations by Jack Matthews. Black cloth, gilt lettering to spine. Wear to heel of spine. POI in pencil to ffep, else, clean and bright. In original illustrated dust jacket in red and black: price-clipped, spine sunned, edges creased, wear and nicking to extremities, patch of rubbing to front panel. Very good/ good+. "Being the History of an Adventure to an Island in the Remote South Sea. Of a Wizard there. Of his Pirate Gang; His Treasure; His Combustible; His Skeleton Antic Lad. Of his Wisdom; Of his Poesy; His Barbarous Cruelty; His Might Power; Of a Volcano on the Island. And of the Ghostly Terror".

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Bookseller: Quair Books (GB)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 1543
Title: The Haunted Island
Author: VISIAK, E. H.; MATTHEWS, Jack (illustrator)
Book Condition: Used
Quantity Available: 1
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Peter Lunn
Place of Publication: London
Date Published: 1946

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Edges: The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
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