Greatheart Of Papua (james Chalmers). Prater, Ernest, Illustrated By.
£30.00
Publisher
The Livingstone Press (L.M.S.) 48 Broadway, Westminster, S.W.1.
Place
London
Date
[n.d., c.1940?]
Synopsis
By w. p. nairne. with a map, and eight illustrations in half-tone chiefly from drawings by ernest prater. (the pathfinder series).
Item Description
8vo. 7.25 x 5 inches. [viii] + 229 pp. Bound in original green cloth with black titles, in pictorial dust wrapper, with neat repair at tail of spine. Foxing largely confined to page edges; otherwise a very good copy. Presentation label on first free endpaper. Illustrated by 7 half tone plates, including frontispiece, and by map front endpaper. Novelised biography of James Chalmers (1841-1901), Scottish missionary who had worked for the London Missionary Society, 1867-77. Chalmers met his end at the hands of cannibals in the Gulf of Papua, New Guinea. With the artwork of Ernest Prater (1864-1950), artist, illustrator and Boer War correspondent. First published by Oxford, 1913.
[Stock No. 30220]
