Small Hardback (with Dust-Jacket), Good Condition, Undated, 183 pages, Pre-ISBN

The Black Arrow – Robert Louis Stevenson

No. 33 in the Dean’s Classics Series

Dean & Sons hardback edition with dust-jacket, no print date and no ISBN indicating a print date prior to 1966.

If you like historical stories of the days when men fought with sword and dagger, and when death came whistling through the silence from a strong crossbow, then you’ll thoroughly enjoy The Black Arrow.

Here is a tale of the Wars of the Roses and in it you can ride with young Richard Shelton and his archers, fight with Sir Daniel Shelton and see the crook-backed Richard, Duke of Gloucester battling for the crown he was to wear as Richard the Third.

Robert Louis Stevenson wrote Treasure Island, Kidnapped and a host of other full-blooded tales of action but never did he plunge so eagerly into the fray as he did when, taking up his pen, he wrote of England’s fair countryside torn by war between Englishmen and Englishmen.

There are outlaws, too, in this action-packed tale. Indeed nothing that makes for thrills is left out of a book to make the blood tingle in your veins.