‘Play the Game!’ A School Story
( E.H. SHEPARD ) AVERY, H.
[Illustrated by E.H. Shepard]. [Second Edition?].
Published: Nelson, n.d. [c.1920]
Stock code: 11509
Price: £34.00
8vo., [Second Edition?], with coloured frontispiece, title in red and black and 3 coloured plates; publisher's splendid pictorial binding of ribbed green cloth blocked in gilt and colours, pictorial back gilt, bevelled boards, green endpapers, lower hinge starting (but binding entirely sound), a very good, bright, clean copy.
Avery's popular tale of school life was first published in 1906. In this edition, probably the second, E.H. Shepard adds characteristic verve to the illustrations. Scarce in this condition.