CONDITION:

First Edition; First Printing. 1918. George G. Harrap & Co. Ltd., London. Good. Hardcover. No jacket. Color frontispiece present & excellent - "The Escape." Brown tan pictorial cloth boards, faded w/ soiling. Small tilt to spine. Cracked hinges; all pages secure. One page margin finger smudge. Previous owner's vintage bookplate; otherwise unmarked. 270 pp. 5.5 x 8. Illustrations by Chase Emerson & Florence Anderson. Printed by Turnbull & Spears, Edinburgh. Adventure novel set in the Canadian frontier tradition, published by Harrap in London as a first edition. Ships from the USA, quickly & w/care. _____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ SYNOPSIS & HISTORY: Partners of the Forest Trail is a 1918 wilderness adventure novel by Carl Harry Claudy, published by George G. Harrap & Co. Ltd. in London as the first UK edition. Set in the Canadian frontier tradition, the story follows the boy scout and outdoor adventure genre that flourished in the early twentieth century, appealing to young readers with tales of wilderness, survival, and partnership. Published during the final year of World War One, this Harrap edition represents a slice of the early twentieth-century British children's book market. Claudy was a prolific American author of adventure and science fiction for young readers, and his work circulated on both sides of the Atlantic through established publishers including Harrap. For collectors of WWI-era children's fiction, early Harrap imprints, or the Canadian frontier adventure genre, this is an appealing antiquarian copy with its most significant illustrated feature fully intact.

SYNOPSIS:

Partners of the Forest Trail is a 1918 wilderness adventure novel by Carl Harry Claudy, published by George G. Harrap & Co. Ltd. in London as the first UK edition. Set in the Canadian frontier tradition, the story follows the boy scout and outdoor adventure genre that flourished in the early twentieth century, appealing to young readers with tales of wilderness, survival, and partnership.

Published during the final year of World War One, this Harrap edition represents a slice of the early twentieth-century British children's book market. Claudy was a prolific American author of adventure and science fiction for young readers, and his work circulated on both sides of the Atlantic through established publishers including Harrap.

For collectors of WWI-era children's fiction, early Harrap imprints, or the Canadian frontier adventure genre, this is an appealing antiquarian copy with its most significant illustrated feature fully intact.

 

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