Books published by publisher FREDERICK A. STOKES

8vo. 180 pp.A very good copy in orange boards with faded blue lettering on spine and front, line drawings of sea creatures in blue paste down color picture on front. Pictorial endpapers in white and shades of blue. Fading and soiling to boards.Spine frayed at head and foot, bumping at corners. Small stains on pp.22-23, child's name deeply impressed in pencil on recto of frontispeice. Two tiny spots on verso of front endpaper and half title.

Ocean-Born Mary was a real person. She was born in mid-ocean, h=while her parents, a young Scotch-Irish couple, were voyaging to American in 1720. Shortly after her birth, the ship was captured by pirates. The sight of the new-born babe so moved the pirate captain that he named the baby Mary and allowed the immigrant band to proceed on its voyage unharmed. The child grew up to be called Ocean-Born Mary.

1925. Wren immortalized the French Foreign Legion in Beau Geste and many other novels of high adventure and romance. Beau Ideal is the sequel to Beau Geste. featuring Otis Van Brugh, brother of Hank and Mark Van Brugh, who were in Beau Sabreur. He visits Africa and gets caught up in a fight.He is then asked by Isobel Geste to find her husband John, who has disappeared in Africa trying to find his old friends Hank and Buddy. Otis, who was a childhood playmate of John and who is in love with Isobel, enlists in the foreign legion. He gets himself sent to a penal battalion and finds John. Arabs raid the battalion and capture Otis and John. The Arab girl the Death Angel falls in love with Otis