Henrietta's House by Goudge, Elizabeth - 2020

University of London Press, 1943. Hardcover. Acceptable. 1943. New Impression. 252 pages. No dust jacket. Green cloth with black lettering. B&W illustrations throughout, many of which have been coloured in neatly. Clean pages. Minimal foxing and tanning to endpapers and page edges. Front hinge cracked, thus the board is slack. Some gutter cracking. Mild wear and bumping to spine, board edges and corners, with scuffing, staining and marking to boards. Heavy sunning to spine and board edges.

Harmondsworth; London: Penguin Puffin Books, 1972. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Paperback. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Anthony Maitland. First edition, first printing. paperback. 192 pp. Black and white illustrations. Page edges tanned otherwise Very Good condition .No inscriptions

The C.W. Daniel Company Ltd., UK, 1973. Hard Cover, First. Book Condition: Near Very Good. Inscription endpaper. No jacket..

London: Hodder & Stoughton/Univ. of London Press,. Very Good- in Good+ dust jacket. 1949. Fourth Printing. Hardcover. Hbk in d/w; bright orange cloth boards with black lettering and decoration; gift inscription (not author) & name stamp on fep; b/w frontis & 4 attractive colour plates; contents are generally clean & sound, with a little light foxing on blocked page foredges; d/w is price clipped and has some chipping to edges, especially at spine ends; ; closed tear on front; vg-/g+; ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall .

London: University of London Press/Hodder and Stoughton Limited, 1946. Pages clean and bright, 3 of the black-and-white illustrations have been carefully coloured in with pencils by the previous owner, boards and binding tidy, dust jacket price clipped, some rubbing to dust jacket with chipping with small loss.. Third Impression. Hard. Very Good/Fair. 8vo.

London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1942. First Edition. Hard Cover. Dust Jacket. (London: University of London Press/ Hodder & Stoughton 1942). First UK Edition. Publisher's tuquoise boards with black spine letterin .The book is VG indeed with the usual ghosting of the spine but the black titling and logo remain bright. Mild offsetting to the end papers with a little foxing in places to the text block which has not encroached on the the pages. Mild pushing to the spine tips and light fading to the board edges. Previous owner's gift inscription and date (1943) to the front blank front free end-paper. The D/W is also in VG condition with minor chipping at the head and tail of spine and to the bottom edge of the back panel (none of which affects any lettering). "It is a gentle story, a sequel to Sister of Angels and City of Bells, a tapestry woven with words around the charm of an Edwardian summer, when as Elizabeth says this story is set at the beginning of the present century,… Read More