Physical description

A large hardcover children's book with the title Against all Odds - Adventure Stories for Boys printed in white and black lettering at the top. The spine has the title in black letters with an African porter drawn beneath. The front cover has a wrap around with the back cover of a coloured illustration of hunters in Africa shooting at a rhinocerous with local porters running away. There is a printed bookplate on the front endpaper and a coloured frontispiece opposite the title page of two tigers sitting on rocks in the grass. There are coloured plates and black and white illustrations throughout.

Publication type

fiction

Inscriptions & markings

On the inside of a printed bookplate is written - This book belongs To Lance, with love from Auntie Tillie. Christmas 1935.

Summary

A collection of adventure stories for boys written by various authors.