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ADVENTURE STORIES FROM THE STRAND

by Geraldine Beare; Tim Heald

Illustrated by David Eccles

Published by Folio Society. 1st. 1995

Very good condition. Stories selected by Geraldine Beare. Introduction by Tim Heale. Green and gilt pictorial cloth, gilt title block to spine with black title. B/w illustrations. Top edge green.

Spine is faded and slightly spotted, bumped at top and tail. Gold slipcase is slightly scuffed.

Stock no. 1329884

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Contents

  • Introduction Tim Heald
  • Editor's Preface
  • The Lost Legion - Rudyard Kiping (1892)
  • How the Brigadier Came to the Castle of Gloom - A. Conon Doyle (1895)
  • The Adventure of the Cantankerous Old Lady - Grand Allen (1898)
  • The Purple Terror - Fred M. White (1899)
  • Lost Tommy Jepps - Arthur Morrison (1902)
  • The Land Ironclads - H.G. Wells (1903)
  • The Girl on the Sands - Richard Marsh (1904)
  • The Adventure of the Snowing Globe - F. Anstey (1905)
  • Code No. 2 - Edgar Wallace (1916)
  • In Mid-Air - F. Britten Austin (1920)
  • Out of the Night - F. Britten Austin (1923)
  • The Kidnapped 'General' - Stacy Aumonier (1923)
  • An Eventful Day in the Life of Miss Faversham - Richmal Compton (1926)
  • Mirage - W. Somerset Maugham (1929)
  • Pyjamas - Sinclair Lewis (1931)
  • Magic - A.E.W. Mason (1931)
  • The Mystery Tour - 'Sapper' (1937)
  • Last Journey - William C. White (1939)
  • The News in English - Graham Greene (1940)
  • Driver! - Hilton Brown (1949)

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