THE YOUNG FOLK'S BOOK OF INVENTION
Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, 1927. Hardcover. 1927 edition. A Very Good copy. 8vo., 287 pp., illustrated with full color drawings, black & white photographs and black & white drawings. Bound in publishers tan cloth with colored paste down on front cover. There is rubbing at the top of the spine and on the tips. Cover has some fading and minor overall soiling. Interior is clean and unmarked with some wrinkling on the frontispiece. A Very Good copy. Very Good. Item #24630
(1868-1944) French-born UK author, in Florida for some years before 1894; he also wrote as Christopher Beck. A prolific author of boys' fiction from 1899 or earlier, including some Sexton Blake Library stories, he wrote several tales for the oldest segment of his audience.
Book has a very small round stamp on the inside rear cover from The Norman Remington Co. of Baltimore.
Price: $15.00