Follow My Black Plume

by Geoffrey Trease

Illustrated by Brian Wildsmith

Penguin Books, 1972, ISBN 0140305149, line drawings in text, paperback

Good Condition, a little edge and shelf wear, a little rubbing and bumping to edges and corners, no inscriptions, age toned pages, introductory and first few pages loose (see photographs)

“These words set Mark Apperley off on a series of adventures that end in a trek across Italy with ‘Garibaldi’.  Fifteen-year-old Mark lives a frustrating, bored life in the charge of his strict grandmother, who declares he is delicate and will allow hi neither to go to school nor to do any of the boy’s things he holds so dear.”