TURNER, E.S – Boys Will Be Boys, the Story of Sweeney Todd, Deadwood Dick, Sexton Blake, Billy Bunter, Dick Barton, et. al

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Michael Joseph, UK, 1948. Decorative Boards. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket: Good. Good clean tight book. Gift inscription to ffep. Clipped DJ Red boards with gilt signatures of boyhood heroes. Gilt titles to spine. No d/w. An investigation into the origins and subsequent absorption into the genre of ‘penny dreadfuls’ and boys’ adventure novels of the 19th and 20th centuries.