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ADAMS, Rev. H[enry]. C[adwallader].
Hair-Breadth Escapes; Or, the Adventures of Three Boys in South Africa.

Description:
pp. x, (ii), 371, (iii) blank. Frontispiece, 7 plates. Original decorated cloth, all edges gilt, the book-block slightly cocked, otherwise a very good copy.

*ADAMS [1817-1899] was the vicar of Dry Sandford, a village in the Vale of White Horse, about 3 miles (5 km) north-west of Abingdon. It is one of two villages in the civil parish of St Helen Without. It was part of Berkshire until the 1974 boundary changes transferred the Vale of White Horse to Oxfordshire. He was a prolific author, the above title being rather scarce, with four locations in COPAC - BL : NLS : EXETER : CAMBRIDGE.

Griffith and Farran. London.

Date Published: [1877].

Stock No. 65403

Price: £200.00

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