"No Surrender! I belong to the Death or Glory Boys!"
Death or Glory.
London: Hogarth House, n.d., ca. 1880s.
Price: $1,000.00
About the item
Shot and Shell No. 56. Published every Wednesday with the 'Young Englishman's Journal'. Profusely illustrated. 184 pp. 1 vols. Small 4to. "No Surrender! I belong to the Death or Glory Boys!" Burgundy cloth, spine stamped in gilt, with original pictorial wrappers bound in. Sporting bookplate of Alexander M. Byers. Chromolithograph poster (repaired along folds with archival tissue, some losses) laid in. OCLC lists only NYPL (J.S. Billings Mem. Coll.). Not in British Library.
Item #228246
Stirring novel of the Crimean War by George Emmett, prolific author of juvenile adventures. Other works in the Shot & Shell series include 'Captain Jack; or, One of the Light Brigade'; 'The King's Hussars; A Tale of India', and 'For Valour; or, How I won the Victoria Cross'
With loosely inserted chromolithograph poster of a dismounted cavalryman, "No Surrender! I belong to the Death or Glory Boys."
OCLC also records the Author's Edition, 136 pp., at the University of South Carolina.
