The Abbey Girls go back to School by OXENHAM, Elsie J - 1949

Collins, 1951. Hardcover. Acceptable. 1951. Reprinted. 314 pages. No dust jacket. Glue cloth with small illustration and white lettering. Pages are moderately tanned with noticeable foxing throughout. Pen inscription to front free end paper and pencil inscription to rear free end paper. Boards have moderate edge-wear with bumping to corners and noticeable rubbing to surfaces. Water marks to front board. Book has a slight forward lean. Slight crushing to spine ends.

Collins, 1951. Hardcover. Good/Acceptable. 1951. Reprinted. 314 pages. Pictorial dust jacket over blue cloth. Pages and binding are presentable with no major defects. Minor issues present such as mild cracking, inscriptions, inserts, light foxing, tanning and thumb marking. Overall a good condition item. Boards have mild shelf wear with light rubbing and corner bumping. Some light marking and sunning. Unclipped jacket has heavy edgewear with areas of loss, heavy tears, chips, and creasing. Foxing to inside panels. Wear marks overall.

Collins, 1949. Hardcover. Good. 1949. First Edition Thus. 314 pages. No dust jacket. Blue cloth. Pages and binding are presentable with no major defects. Minor issues present such as mild cracking, inscriptions, inserts, light foxing, tanning and thumb marking. Overall a good condition item. Boards have mild shelf wear with light rubbing and corner bumping. Some light marking and sunning.

Collins, 1949. Hardcover. Acceptable/Good. 1949. First Edition Thus. 314 pages. Illustrated dust jacket over blue cloth. Moderate foxing and tanning to pages. More prominent to text block edges, pastedowns and free endpapers. Binding remains firm with mild creasing to gutters. Book is slightly bowed and forward leaning with visible tanning and scuffing overall. Spine has light tanning with soft crushing to ends. Clipped dust jacket with minor rubbing, chipping and tearing to edges. Moderate tanning and scuffing overall.

Collins Clear-Type Press, 1941. Hardcover. Good. 1941. Reprinted. 314 pages. No dust jacket. Red cloth with silver lettering. Pages remain bright and clear with minimal tanning and foxing. Binding remains firm. Heavier tanning to endpapers. Pen inscription to front free endpaper. Boards have mild edge-wear with slight rubbing to surfaces. Some sunning to head and tail of spine.

London: Collins, 1945. presentation certificate front endpaper, some wear to covers, slightly loose in covers, otherwise book clean and sound. Reprint. Hard Cover. Fair/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

UK: Girls Gone By Publishers. Near Fine. 2005. Softcover. 1904417752 . A second hand copy that has probably been read carefully once; ; Abbey School; 8vo 8" - 9" tall .

Published by Collins, 1951. Hardback. Very Good/Good. Very good condition in a good dustwrapper. Seagull library edition. Blue boards with silver titles. Spine and corners bumped, some fading to top and tail of spine. Foxing to endpapers, first few and last few pages. Price-cut wrapper is edge worn and chipped with loss, some tape repairs on verso and rear panel is grubby.

Collins, c. 1928. 8vo. Original blue pictorial cloth (VG), no dustwrapper. Pp. viii + 314 + publisher's catalogue, illus with coloured frontispiece and 2 b&w plates (1928 school prize plate on front paste-down; no inscriptions).

London and Glasgow: Collins Clear Type Press, 1940. Orange cloth boards with silver lettering in pictorial dustwrapper; 314pp; colour frontis. Light bumping to corners and spine ends with small chip to upper edge of boards; tanning and light foxing to page block edges and endpapers; previous owner details to front endpaper. Unclipped dustwrapper is grubby, nicked chipped and creased to edges with several tape repairs to reverse. From the Abbey School Series.. Reprint.. Hard Cover. Very Good Minus/Fair.