brazil smith elder (3 resultados)

Hardcover. Condición: Good. No Jacket. Blackie & Son, Ltd., London, UK. 1933. Hardcover. Edition not stated. Book is tight, square, and unmarked. Book Condition: Good; wear through paper at tips, board fore edges, and board bottoms; light wear at head and tail. No DJ. Tan cloth spine with pictorial paper over boards; blue lettering on the spine and on front papers. Clean internals. Internal hinges are sound and not split. Captain of Hockey color frontispiece present. 208 pp 4to. This book features 24 stories about girls and girls' education (Girls' School Stories) in boarding schools in the 1920s-30s from various British writers featuring the "modern schoolgirls' stories", written from the characters' point of view and intended primarily as entertainment rather than moral instruction. Most of these stories present a young female point of view which was active, aware of current issues and independent-minded in which adolescence is seen as a time of transition, and girls could have common interests and concerns. A clean very presentable copy.

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. Beige cloth spine, pictorial front board showing school girl with tennis racket. Colour frontis, 4 b/w plates and numerous b/w text illustrations. Some staining to rear board. Minor rubbing to edges of front board, an attractive copy. Ink owners name to head of fep.

Hardcover. V GOOD LOVELY COPY SMALL AMOUNT FOXING MAINLY TO PAGE EDGES FBW; 9426.