Search Results: the raid of the terribore a by mackworth john

Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott Company, 1937. Hardcover. Illustrations by Thomas Somerfield. Frontispiece by Reginald Mills. 8vo. Light blue cloth with dark blue lettering and dark blue and ivory pictorial front board stamping, pictorial dust jacket. 308pp. Color frontispiece, 6 full-page called-for line drawings. Very good/very good. Faint binding edgewear, with spine faintly sunned; jacket lightly rubbed and mildly edgeworn, with tiny chips at head and tail of spine; endpapers age toned; front flyleaf ownership signature. Tight and nice first U.S. edition of this young adult sci-fi yarn about (to cite front jacket flap) "a marvelous machine... which burrows underground and causes terror and consternation by invading the vaults of the Bank of England...." Rather scarce, especially in the colorful jacket.