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155 - Ballantyne (R.M.) The Coral Island: A Tale of the Pacific Ocean, first edition, first issue, first issue with 'View From the Hill Top' frontispiece and 'Terrible Encounter with a Shark' facing p.76, colour printed wood-engraved frontispiece, additional pictorial title, 6 plates, lacking a few tissue guards, small bookseller blind stamp to front free endpaper, light browning and foxing in text, minor nick to final free endpaper, original green pictorial cloth, spine slightly darkened, spine ends and corner tips lightly rubbed, spine head slightly fraying, edges toned, [Quayle 12a], 8vo, T. Nelson and sons, 1858 [but 1857].
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Ballantyne (R.M.) The Coral Island: A Tale of the Pacific Ocean, first edition, first issue, first issue with 'View From the Hill Top' frontispiece and 'Terrible Encounter with a Shark' facing p.76, colour printed wood-engraved frontispiece, additional pictorial title, 6 plates, lacking a few tissue guards, small bookseller blind stamp to front free endpaper, light browning and foxing in text, minor nick to final free endpaper, original green pictorial cloth, spine slightly darkened, spine ends and corner tips lightly rubbed, spine head slightly fraying, edges toned, [Quayle 12a], 8vo, T. Nelson and sons, 1858 [but 1857]. *** An excellent example of this children's classic.
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