Green cloth binding with black and gilt image on the front board. Gilt title plate with black lettering on the spine.

It is the intent of F.B.A. to provide an in-depth photographic presentation of this book offered so to almost stimulate your feel and touch on the book. If requested, more traditional book descriptions are immediately available.

An early edition, still in good condition

A collection of short adventure stories published in the Strand Magazine, with illustrations by David Eccles and an introduction from Tim Heald. The short stories included are: ‘The Lost Legion’ by Rudyard Kipling; ‘How the Brigadier Came to the Castle of Gloom’ by Arthur Conan Doyle; ‘The Adventure of the Cantankerous Old Lady’ by Grant Allen; ‘The Purple Terror’ by Fred M. White; ‘Lost Tommy Jepps’ by Arthur Morrison; ‘The Land Ironclads’ by H.G. Wells; ‘The Girl on the Sands’ by Richard Marsh; ‘The Adventures of the Snowing Globe’ by F. Anstey; ‘Code No. 2’ by Edgar Wallace; ‘In Mid-Air’ by F. Britten Austin; ‘The Kidnapped ‘General” by Stacy Aumonier; ‘An Eventful Day in the Life of Miss Faversham’ by Richmal Crompton; ‘Mirage’ by W. Somerset Maugham; ‘Pyjamas’ by Sinclair Lewis; ‘Magic’ by A.E.W. Mason; ‘The Mystery Tour’ by ‘Sapper’; ‘Last Journey’ by William C. White; ‘The News in English’ by Graham Greene; and ‘Driver!’ by Hilton Brown.