S clarke hook (2 Ergebnisse)

Paperback. Zustand: Fair. A very scarce volume from the Boys' Friends Library. This very scarce volume from the Boys Friends Library contains The Call of the South featuring S. Clarke Hook's characters Jack, Sam, and Pete. The Boy' Friend Library was published by the Amalgamated Press between 1906 until wartime paper shortages stopped printing in June 1940. The story papers were initially conceived as a vehicle for S. Clarke Hook's e popular Jack, Sam & Pete and eventually included adventures, school stories, historical fiction, crime, and science fiction by authors such as Jules Verne and Charles Hamilton. In the publisher's original paper binding. Externally, a little worn. The front cover is disbound, but present. The wrap is torn from the head of the spine to halfway down the rear joint. The spine is missing a little wrap to the head and tail of the spine. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are lightly age-toned but clean. Fair. None (illustrator). book.…

Original 1903 comic. Covers detached, edges chipped. Pages toned. Contents include: His Secret Foe (by A. Clever) ; Three Jolly Midshipmen (by S. Clarke Hook). G. ** The Union Jack was launched by Alfred Harmsworth in 1894, and became one of the titles brought under the control of Harmsworth's Amalgamated Press Limited in 1901. The Union Jack Library Library (Halfpenny, first series) was published by the Amalgamated Press and ran from 28th April 1894 until 10th Oct 1903, a total of 494 issues. The second (New) series was launched on 17th September 1903 and ran until 18th February 1933, a total of 1531 issues before being replaced by the Detective weekly. (Note there was an unrelated publication of the same name published by Samson Low that ran for 181 issues from 1880 to 1883).…