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Published by Fleetway Library / Woman's Weekly Library / IPC Magazines Ltd., London, England, Great Britain, UK, 1980
Seller: Comic World, Steinbach, MB, Canada
First Edition
Soft cover. Condition: Very Good to Fine. Painted Cover Art! (illustrator). First Edition THUS!. [These UK Digests are getting Scarcer; Approx. 4-1/2" x 7" Size; Small Type-Set compact Text; Most books in this series have an average of 35,000 Words which is equivalent to 100-120 or more pages in a Normal sized USA paperback; Originally NOT for sale in USA, thus Scarce in America! Series has many well known Author's & many Scarce to RARE issues; >> Story is 64 Pages in Length; >>> "In her heart she knew Neri couldn't free himself from the past." Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Book.
Published by John Shaw & Co
Seller: Blacklock's Rare Books (est 1988), Egham, United Kingdom
Book
Soft cover. Condition: Good. 2nd Edition. New edition, probably the second edition. The first was 1875. Part of the Shaw's Home Series. Good/poor condition. Stitching visible on spine, bent corners and heavy staining. Black and white full page frontis illustration and vignettes in text. Hatchards (the publishers) advert page. A rare survival in this form and a rare piece of Victoriana. 'Brenda' Georgina Castle Smith 1845-1933, children's author. Large octavo, 62 pages, 150g.
Published by London John F. Shaw & Co, Religious Tract Society etc 1876-1926, 1875
Seller: Jonathan Frost Rare Books Limited, Liverpool, United Kingdom
Book First Edition Signed
11 titles, some duplicates, signed or inscribed by "Brenda", 2, including a 'New Edition' of 'Froggy's Little Brother', are the author's own copies, 4 are inscribed to her Daughter, Eva and 3 are inscribed to her husband, Castle Smith, who illustrated 'Froggy's Little Brother', with 1, 'Merchant and Mountebank' inscribed to her son, Maurice and a later 20th century reprint of 'Froggy's little brother' inscribed by Brenda not clearly to a family member or marking her ownership, which has a pencil price to the front endpaper possibly indicating that it was added to the group later. The 'New edition' of 'Froggy's Little Brother' has later ownership inscriptions by Eva. 7 appear to be first editions, which would make sense, being the author's own copies, and the other 4 are reprints. The earliest dated inscription is from Christmas Day 1876 in 'Lotty's Visit to Grandmama' and the latest is in an Edwardian reprint of 'Especially Those' dated 1926, thus spanning 50 years of Brenda's life. Condition is mixed, the later titles such as 'More About Froggy' are for the most part in very good order, the author's copy of 'Froggy's Little Brother' is pleasingly well read and worn, to the extent that it has had to be re-backed at some point, 'Victoria-Bess' has lost its front endpaper and Eva's copy of 'The Children of Windystreet' has a tear and minor loss to the cloth at the top of the spine. Brenda was hugely popular in her day, with the didactic novel of two street urchins, 'Froggy's Little Brother' in particular being reprinted numerous times, though some of the later titles are quite rare.