The Strange Affair at Abbot's

by Grant, Nesta

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London: Burke -- Falcon Library, 1959. 250 g.; VI, 224 pages. Red coloured boards with black illustration of a Falcon to the lower right-hand corner of the front panel. Back titles and black illustration to the back strip. A little rubbing and bumping to the head and to the heel of the back strip and to the book corners. Very heavy browning and light staining to the text block edges. Some stains and browning to the endpapers. The internal pages have also become a slightly brown. Illustrated dustwrapper, showing a group of girls standing around while a man grapples with a skeleton and an older woman stands in the background with a very disapproving look on her face. White titles to the front panel and back strip and black-and-white illustrations at the back strip as well. Rubbing and little chipping to the dustwrapper corners and rubbing to the top and bottom dustwrapper edges. Browning and marking to the back panel. Clipping of the dustwrapper, front fold over, lower right-hand corner. Browning to the top edge of the dustwrapper and to either side of the dustwrapper particularly the front and back fold over creases and back strip region. Staining can be seen to the lower half of the dustwrapper as well. A School story set in a girls school called Abbots and a school that term involves kidnapping, burglary and the resurrection of an old feud between the boy's medical school. Digital image available upon request.. Reprint. Red Boards. Good/Reasonable. 12mo - up to 7 ¾" tall - Duodecimo. Adolescent.

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