Hardback (03 Nov 1992)
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Perhaps the greatest of all adventure stories for boys and girls, Treasure Island began, a brave boy who finds himself among pirates, and of the sinister pirate-cook Long John Silver holds children as entranced today as it did a century ago. It has appeared with illustrations by many leading artists, but none so apt as Peake's--first published in 1949 and out of print until now.
Everyman's Library was founded on 15th February 1906 with the publication by Joseph Dent (1849-1926) of fifty titles. Dent, a master bookbinder turned publisher, was a classic Victorian autodidact. The tenth child of a Darlington house-painter, he had left school at thirteen, and arrived in London with a half crown in his pocket. He promised to publish new and beautiful editions of the world's classics at one shilling a volume, 'to appeal to every kind of reader: the worker, the student, the cultured man, the child, the man and the woman' so that 'for a few shillings the reader may have a whole bookshelf of the immortals for five pounds (which will procure him a hundred volumes) a man may be intellectually rich for life'. 'Infinite riches in a little room', as he also put it.
| ISBN: | 9780679418009 |
| Publisher: | Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group |
| Imprint: | Everyman's Library |
| Pub date: | 03 Nov 1992 |
| DEWEY: | [Fic] |
| DEWEY edition: | 20 |
| Language: | English |
| Number of pages: | 319 |
| Weight: | 332g |
| Height: | 200mm |
| Width: | 140mm |
| Spine width: | 20mm |
