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c1900 The Coral Island
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Description
Colour Plates, Illustrated, Original Binding, Publishers' Original Binding
In the publisher's original cloth binding.
Illustrated with a colour frontispiece and ten vignettes. Collated complete.
Undated, circa dated from dated ink inscription to front free endpaper.
This juvenile fiction novel from Scottish author R. M. Ballantyne tells the story of three boys marooned on a South Pacific island, the only survivors of a shipwreck.
The major themes of the novel revolve around the influence of Christianity, the importance of social hierarchies, and the inherent superiority of civilised Europeans over the South Sea islanders.
It also offered as inspiration for William Golding's novel Lord of the Flies (1954).
Condition
In the original cloth binding. Externally, with sunning to the spine and wear to the extremities, with bumping to the spine head and tail. Marks to the boards. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are generally bright and clean, with offsetting to the endpapers. Contemporary ink inscription to the front free endpaper.
Good
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