REDSHANK'S WARNING
Written by Malcolm Saville
Illustrated by Lunt Roberts
Published by Lutterworth Press
in 1948
REDSHANK'S WARNING
Written by Malcolm Saville.
Illustrated by Lunt Roberts.
Stock no. 1330602
1st.
1948.
Hardback.
Almost very good condition in a fair dustwrapper.
The first in the Jillies series. Blue cloth, silver title to spine and silver signature to front board. Endpapers are maps of the great adventure. Colour frontis, b/w text illustrations. 206 pages. Spine and corners bumped, cover edges rubbed. Foxing and a few small fingermarks else contents clean. Dustwrapper is edge worn and foxed with 2" loss to base of spine, slight loss to top of spine and corners and slight surface paper damage to front panel.
Front cover
Contents
- The scene is Blakeney in Norfolk with its wild salt flats that the birds love. When the Jillies meet Guy and Mark there, they hoped that some happy bird watching was in store for them - they could not have guessed how many other things would have to be watched as well; or when they first saw the beacon tower of Blakeney Church, what a wonderfully thrilling climax that was going to make to their holiday! What was Miss Harvey plotting? For she certainly wasn't what she pretended to be. Which was the villain, Mr. Sandrock or Mr. Martin? And what was the meaning of the Redshank's Warning?