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Title

THE LITTLE HEIRESS

[First Edition ~ SIGNED by the Author]

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Author

Margaret Bruce Clarke

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Year of Publication

Not Dated

[1904 – Inscription]

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Publisher

London: Thomas Nelson and Sons

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Description:

London: Thomas Nelson and Sons, undated, author's inscription dated 1904, First Edition.

320pp, 4 full page colour plates including the frontispiece.

Scarce volume signed by the author. “To Lucie and Charlie with the author’s love Christmas 1904.”

Approximately 7 ¼ inches tall.

Condition Report

Externally

• Spine – fair to good condition – gilt titles with pictorial design, bruised top and tail, slightly faded.
• Joints – fair to good condition – sound, rubbed.
• Corners – good condition – bumped and worn.
• Boards – good condition – original blue cloth boards, gilt titles, with a coloured picture of a young lady embossed onto the front board, the rear board has a blind embossed design, signs of shelf wear to the edges.
• Page edges – good condition – tanned and foxed.
• See above and photos.

Internally

• Hinges – poor condition – front hinge has cracked the full length and the webbing is visible, rear hinge cracked before the end paper.
• Paste downs – fair to good condition – plain paste downs, lightly tanned with some foxing.
• End papers – good condition – plain end papers with major foxing, author’s message and signature on one of the free end papers.
• Title – good condition – red and black lettering, tanned and foxed.
• Pages – good condition – full coloured tissue protected frontispiece together with further colour plates throughout the book, pages are lightly tanned with foxing to the edges.
• Binding – good condition – loose.
• See photos

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