Messrs. Duckworth & Ca, 3 Hen= rietta Street, London, who' are the publishers of Ponting's "The Gros hire South," Mitchell-Hedges 'Battles With Giant Fish, Doughty's "Wanderings in Arabia, Lady Dorothy Mills' "'The Road to "Timbuktu" and.other famous travel books, are offering a prize of £100 thor of the best original manuscript of a book of travel-adventure submitted for this competition. Messrs, Duckworth & Ca, will publish the winning book and. pay the author, in addition to the 100 prize, a substantial royalty on each copy sold, as well as any sums ceived for serial, cinema or other rights. The competition has been organized in conjunction with Mr. Raymond Savage, the Literary, Agent of 43 Aldwych, London, W.C.2 (cables: Raymosava Lon: don), to whom intending competitors should apply for the exact terms ang details of the competition and for entry forms. The Intest date on which Mr. Savage will receive MSS, for the competition will be December $1 of this year. The result of the competition will be announced not Inter than March 31, 1925, and the winning: book will be published in the Autumn of. 1926...
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