Brownsmith’s Boy, G Manville Fenn. Published by Blackie & Son, London, Circa 1900. 12mo up to 7½” tall., 383pp. with 6 black and white plates and 12pp publisher’s rear advertisements. Blue cloth boards with illustrations in navy, green and gilt to front and spine; grey endpapers. Sticker to free endpaper of General Louis Botha, the first prime minister of South Africa.; sticker to versus of frontispiece: YMCA War Emergency Fund. Minimal and occasional foxing and smudge marks and otherwise contents are in fine condition. Boards have light edge rubbing, light spine lean and light weakening to front hinges. In very good condition.
“Mr. Fenn’s books are among the best, if not altogether the best, of the stories for boys. Mr. Fenn is at his best in Brownsmith’s Boy.” Pictorial World. “Brownsmith’s Boy must rank among the few undeniably good boys’ books. He will be a very dull boy indeed who lays it down without wishing that it had gone on for at least 100 pages more.” North British Mail. George Manville Fenn (1831-1909) was a prolific English novelist, journalist, editor and educationalist.
