Bird Cay
London: Wells Gardner, Darton & Co., Ltd., 1913. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good / No Jacket. Item #2353755
No copyright date, ink gift note dated 1915 on front endpaper, front and end matter lightly foxed. Binding tight and square, text clean and unmarked.
324 pp. Blue cloth, gilt titles, nautical images in several colors on spine and front board, top edge gilt, color frontispiece and plates. An adventure novel in the tradition of Stevenson's Treasure Island. Henry De Vere Stacpoole (1863-1951) was an Irish author, best known for his 1908 romance novel The Blue Lagoon, which was adapted three times for the silver screen. He also wrote The Beach of Dreams, a tale of shipwreck and rescue.
Price: $125.00