David Chester's Motto Honour Bright. A Boy's Adventures at School and at Sea
London: Frederick Warne & Co, 1904. First Edition. Hardcover. Hardcover : pp. [5] 6-[371] [1] (blank), [4] advertisements : brown pictorial cloth : gilt and black and white lettering to upper board and spine : frontispiece and 15 other full-page black and white plates.
Very light extremity wear. Fine. Item #13359
Part of the story describes a voyage from England to Australia, the hero witnessing the Krakatoa eruption, discovering his long-lost father off the west coast of New Guinea, where he also locates buried treasure, consisting of gold from the Australian goldfields. Not recorded by Muir. O'Neill, 773 mistakenly recording the first edition as 1906.
Price: $200.00