The Coral Island by R. M. Ballantyne. Illustrations by Graham Munro (HQ42)

Circa 1940s: Hardcover / Good Condition / Illustrated throughout

Original red cloth with gilt titles on the spine. 384 clean and bright slightly age-toned pages, mild speckled foxing on the endpapers and edges, previous owners details on the first free page dated, 1946. Boards slightly rubbed, stained and faded with time and bumped on the corners and spine ends consistent with age. (HQ42)

Postage €6.95 including additional books ordered.
An Post prepaid postage envelopes within the Republic of Ireland, with no weight restrictions from €6.95.

Fifteen-year-old Ralph, mischievous young Peterkin and clever, brave Jack are shipwrecked on a coral reef with only a telescope and a broken pocketknife between them. At first the island seems a paradise, with its plentiful foods and wealth of natural wonders. But then a party of cannibals arrives, and after that a pirate ship...what is to become of them?

R. M. Ballantyne was a Scottish writer of juvenile fiction.

Born Robert Michael Ballantyne in Edinburgh, he was part of a famous family of printers and publishers. At the age of 16 he went to Canada and where he served for six years with the Hudson's Bay Company. He returned to Scotland in 1847, and published his first book the following year, Hudson's Bay: or Life in the Wilds of North America. For some time he was employed by Messrs Constable, the publishers, but in 1856 he gave up business for literature, and began the series of adventure stories for the young with which his name is popularly associated.

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/226800.The_Coral_Island