Undaunted: A Story of the Solomon Islands
by Metcalfe, W. Charles
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Clarence Park, South Australia, Australia
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(London: John F. Shaw: no date) Pictorial cloth, bevelled boards (that is, hard covers) pp. 288, 16 publishers advertisements. Illustrated with frontispiece and five plates. All edges gilt. Metcalfe is described as Author of Rogues Island; or The Pirate Lair; Steady Your Helm; etc. etc. Gift inscription dated 1910 on front fixed endpaper. Head and foot of spine and corners of boards worn; cloth a little shabby and gilt dulled; inner hinges split; a good copy.
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Clarence Park, South Australia
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I am the daughter of Pioneer Books, our business has closed down after 43 years and I am listing some of it on my own account now that I'm the proud owner of the residual stock! I am selling them at half the price at which they were listed when Pioneer Books existed.
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