Hundred Mile Adventure; Michael Bigson; Illustrations by Bernard Wragg
Leicester, Eng. Brockhampton Press, 1954. Hardcover. Second impression 1954. 127 p.: illustrations; 20 cm. Green cover with embossed decoration; black spine title. Illustrated dust jacket. Publisher's advertisement on back flap. Small bookseller's label on front fixed endpaper: Alberts Bookshop, Perth. Former owner's name on front free endpaper with "Christmas 1955." Four English schoolboys, in teams of two, compete to see who can travel over 100 miles home without using the train, as their parents had expected. (The Amazing Race 1950!) Very scarce in the United States. Book is in Very Good- Condition: head of spine darkened; discolorations on front free endpaper; otherwise, clean and tight. Dust jacket is in Good Condition: loss at ends of spine; closed 1-cm. tear from upper edge of front section and lower edge of back section; minor creasing at edges; spine is slightly sunned; front illustration is bright. Very Good - / good. Item #008428
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