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THE GREAT BOOK FOR BOYS

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1946

Overview

Orange card and paper cover with illustration of camel rider. Title in black highlighted with yellow. Illustrated end papers. Scenes from 'From Home to Strange Adventures' by A. Irving, at front, and 'The Log of the Pioneers' by John Lewis at back. Eleven stories for boys except last chapter called Amusing Science Tricks. Unpaged, illustrated. Frontis in colour: 'Wally spring foreward and caught the thing in mid air'.

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cwa-org-51-B2006.80

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Strang, Herbert (editor)

Keywords

Collection Of Stories

Year

Statement of significance

Typical boys adventure book mid 20th Century.

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Thursday, 31 March, 2022

Albany Historical Society Inc

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