Author: STEVENSON, ROBERT LOUIS
Title: The Master of Ballantrae -and- the Black Arrow (Everyman's Library #764)
Description: London / New York: Everyman's Library - J. M. Dent & Sons Ltd. / E. P. Dutton & Co, Inc, 1946. Hardcover. A 1946 reprint of the 1925 edition. An Everyman's Library edition offering a pair of historical novels by Scotland's Robert Louis Stevenson. "Ballantrae" is based on the divisive Jacobite movement; "Black Arrow" was centered around the Wars of the Roses, with the youthful reader in mind. Everyman's Library catalog no. 764 in their Fiction series, edited by Ernest Rhys, who has supplied prefatory notes on these two works. --- In Everyman's Library binding style 3 with full red cloth and gilt-stamped spine titling; blindstamped Eric Ravilious-designed 'shell' to cover and brown topstain. Red jacket features Ravilious-designed knot to cover. --- With retailer's pricings to front free endpaper, else a clean, firmly-bound copy. Somewhat brittle jacket with a few tears & chips, age-toning and a piece of masking tape to spine but remaining intact and protected in removable mylar wrapper.; 16mo - 6 to 7 in. tall; xv, 384 pages. Very Good in Good+ dust jacket .

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