Physical description

A vintage 1950's hardcover children's book with the title Our Boys' Best of All printed at the top of the coloured illustration of three boys in a rowboat fishing. It is bound on the left side with faded grey tape. The back cover is plain cream coloured.The frontispiece illustration depicts a highwayman brandishing a pistol holding up a stagecoach of passengers. Monsieur Noir ( one of the stories) is written below in blue letters. The title page has the title, publisher details and a black lined illustration of a boy riding a horse with his whip in the air. In the middle of the collection of stories is a coloured plate with the name of one of the stories included: The Secret of Cormorant Point underneath the illustration of three boys being captured by a gang of men with a policeman coming to rescue them. Pp. 65.

Publication type

fiction

Inscriptions & markings

Written in blue ink on the right side endpaper: ' Eric Wallace Christmas 1953 N 8 Lalbert Cres. Armadale. On the This Book Belongs to page: Eric Cunningham Wallace is written. Both are in a child's copperplate handwriting.

Summary

A vintage 1950's collection of adventure stories for boys with black lined illustrations.