DRUMBEATS
Written by David Severn
Illustrated by Richard Kennedy
Published by The Bodley Head
in 1953
DRUMBEATS
Written by David Severn.
Illustrated by Richard Kennedy.
Stock no. 1330334
1st.
1953.
Hardback.
Very good condition in a almost very good dustwrapper.
A desperate drama taking place in the steaming, tortuous jungle of Central Africa. Orange boards, blue title to spine and vignette to front cover. 155 pages. B/w illustrations. Contains a SIGNED letter from the author (to the binder?). Spine bumped. Slight mark to top corner of front cover. Some light foxing and page browning else contents clean. Dustwrapper is edge worn with small tears at corners and slightly grubby to rear panel. "Collins Young Elizabethan Book of the Month" wrapround label to wrapper (loose).
DRUMBEATS
Written by David Severn.
Illustrated by Richard Kennedy.
Stock no. 1328142
1st.
1953.
Hardback.
Very good condition in a almost very good dustwrapper.
A desperate drama taking place in the steaming, tortuous jungle of Central Africa. Orange boards, blue title to spine and vignette to front cover. 155 pages. B/w illustrations. Spine bumped, slight browing to cover edges. Heavy foxing, mainly at textblock. Dustwrapper is edge worn and browned to rear panel.
Front cover
Contents
- 1 I Can' Stop!
- 2 Painting of a Vision
- 3 Just Seeing Things
- 4 That was Hubert for you!
- 5 Meet the Founder
- 6 What are you playing at?
- 7 You're Yellow!
- 8 Severe Attack of Cheating
- 9 An Under-exposed Interior
- 10 Esther! You're Looking Queer
- 11 Not "it" after all
- 12 Reckon this is my Narrow Escape
- 13 "We've Been Gassed" I Cried
- 14 Pitched into Pandemonium
- 15 We're not Dead Yet
- 16 No Time to Lose!
- Epilogue