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The Great Quest (A Romance of 1826)

Charles Boardman Hawes

This book is only known from Blampied's personal album of dust jackets. The front panel of the jacket is illustrated below. It was first published in the USA in 1921 by Little Brown.

Charles Boardman Hawes (1889-1923) was a writer of historical novels. He died of meningitis aged 34 y after publishing two books. This novel was nominated for the Newberry Medal in 1922, the first year the prize was awarded.



 First and only British edition

Bibliography code: HEI-22.1

Publisher: Heinemann

Series: none

Year: 1922

Format: 8vo

Pages: viii, pp 396

Binding: dark brown cloth with title, author and illust of sailing ship and rowing boat on cover; title, three dots, author and publisher on spine; windmill logo bottom right of rear cover

Size: 190 x 130 mm

Dust jacket signed: Blam in white, lower left

Internal illustrations: none

Price: 7 shillings 6 pence

Printing history: first edition

Printed by: not known

Image of dust jacket

Front panel of dust jacket (click to enlarge)


Notes: The book has not been seen with the dust jacket. The copy in the British Library was seen, with an accession date of 30th March 1922.