Beechy of the Harbour School. by Brent-Dyer, Elinor M

London: Oliphants. Very Good- with no dust jacket. 1955. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Slim 8vo hbk no dustwrapper; 1st Edition. Book has green cloth Boards; coloured frontispiece; pp lightly browned; Vg-; ; Stand Alone Novel; 8vo 8" - 9" tall .

Oliphants Ltd, London & Edinburgh, 1955. First Edition. Hardcover. Good Condition/Good. Colour illustrated frontispiece. White coloured boards with blue coloured titles to the back strip. Colour illustrated dustwrapper, same illustration as for frontispiece, with dark red and black coloured titles to the front panel and back strip. Beechy would have found the first term at school very pleasant except for the trouble that Olive was causing. "Beechy had become a Christian before starting school but had told nobody. She had to learn the hard way that only when we pray to Him and have the courage to confess to Him, does Jesus give us the strength we need to meet life's difficulties." – from the front fold over panel blurb. Softening and a little chipping of the pack strip edges; with rubbing of the top book corners and lower book edges. There is a small erosion mark to the top edge of the front panel stop panel show rubs and marks with tanning of the text block… Read More

London: Oliphants, 1955. Book. Illus. by Wardill. Very good-. Hardcover. First Edition. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. 1st edition : 1955 White Boards (Ive also seen this title with Green boards) Jacket is backed with brown paper glued to it. The brown paper overlaps onto the front of the flaps by around 1cm and can be seen on the front panel where there is a small loss. The front flap has a large price clip. Front free endpaper is 75% missing. Still a tidy copy of a quite scarce title.

Published by Oliphants Ltd., 1955. 1st edition.. Hardback. Good/Good. Almost very good condition in an almost very good dustwrapper. Green boards, black title to spine and embossed publisher vignette to front board. Colour frontis. 96 pages. Spine and corners slightly bumped. Name and address in biro to front pastedown. Prize plate and a few ink marks to front free-endpaper. Contents are browned but otherwise clean. Price-cut wrapper is edge worn, torn and creased, large tear to front fold which has been tape repaired on verso. Title of book has been written in ink to front flap of wrapper.