Manning Coles [Adelaide Frances Oke Manning; Cyril Henry Coles] — The Emperor&Apos;S Bracelet

London, University of London Press, 1947. First edition. Cloth. A smart first edition of this charmingly illustrated novel, with the original unclipped dust wrapper. First edition. Illustrated with a colour frontispiece, three colour plates and many in-text and full-page images. Collated complete. Written for young adults, this novel follows the trail of a missing bracelet stolen from the British Museum. From London, the story travels to the West African coast and to the lost land of Perdita, a city whose inhabitants are directly descended from the Romans. Written by Manning Coles, the pseudonym of two British writers, Adelaide Frances Oke Manning and Cyril Henry Coles, who wrote many spy thrillers from the 1940s through the early 1960s. Illustrated by Henry Matthew Brock, a British illustrator and landscape painter. In the original blue cloth binding. Externally, smart with minor bumping and light fading to the extremities. Original unclipped dust wrapper is sound with light wear and chipping to the extremities. Minor loss to the head and tail of the spine with a 1" closed tear to the head of the spine. Light sunning to the spine with the odd small closed tear to the extremities. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are very bright and clean throughout. Very Good . Ill.: H. M. Brock. Very Good/Good.