BY SHEER PLUCK: A Tale of the Ashanti War
by Henty, G. A
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good/No Jacket
- Seller
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Concord, California, United States
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About This Item
M. A. Donohue, 1910. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. Gordon Browne. 12 mo., vintage hardcover, name on endpaper and pages lightly age-toned else VG. Binding tight, beige pictorial boards with paste-on of men shooting at Ashanti tribesmen.293 pp. plus 10 pages of another story by Frances Baden (One True Heart) plus ads. 8 illustrations, no date, but date on endpaper is Christmas 1910; the story of a white boy, Edward Ashton, who is taken captive by the Ashanti ( people of south-central Ghana) and must use all of his pluck to survive. From the seventeenth to the nineteenth centuries, much of the territory of the present-day country of Ghana belonged to the Ashanti Empire. Henty (1832-1902) was a Victorian literary phenomenon whose 144 books and myriad short stories have long enthralled adults and children alike. .
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Details
- Bookseller
- bookwitch (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 83159
- Title
- BY SHEER PLUCK: A Tale of the Ashanti War
- Author
- Henty, G. A
- Illustrator
- Gordon Browne
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- M. A. Donohue
- Date Published
- 1910
- Keywords
- Henty
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- Jacket
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- Tight
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- VG
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