The Young Visitors: Or, Mr Salteena's Plan. With a preface by J. M. Barrie
by ASHFORD, Daisy; SIMMONDS, Posy (illustrator)
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good
- Seller
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Leeds, West Yorkshire, United Kingdom
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About This Item
London: Chatto & Windus/ The Hogarth Press, 1984. Hardback. Very Good. FIRST THUS. Slim 8vo, with b/w illustrations by Simmonds. Pink marbled paper boards, spine lettered in black in white panel. Lean to spine, heel of spine and top corners bumped. Else, clean and bright. In the original dust jacket: edgewear, gentle creasing to top edges. A pleasing copy of this charming edition of Ashford's comic mistress-piece, written when she was only nine years old. Very good/ very good. In her 'Illustrator's note,' the prize-winning cartoonist draws attention to her affinity with Ethel (via "ruge"): "As a child, I was fascinated by rouge. My grandmother had a pot, and sometimes she let me and my brothers and sister put it on. It was very agreeable to lounge about the house with a good dob on each cheek..."
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- Bookseller
- Quair Books (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 2278
- Title
- The Young Visitors: Or, Mr Salteena's Plan. With a preface by J. M. Barrie
- Author
- ASHFORD, Daisy; SIMMONDS, Posy (illustrator)
- Format/Binding
- Hardback
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Chatto & Windus/ The Hogarth Press
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1984
- Bookseller catalogs
- Illustrated Books; Modern Firsts;
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