TURNER, ETHEL — Miss Bobbie

Ward Lock. 1897. Hardcover with dust jacket, 19cm. Ill.: Harold Copping. Book, There is a school presentation plate inside the cover dated 1900. Faults? see photos re these faults > pencilled letters on endpapers, pencil & yellow pencil/chalk on the dedication page, pencilled addition on the last page, front hinge webbing visible & spine faded. 316pp & over 500g to post. Sydney Morning Herald reviewer says in part >> 'Only a fine talent would take these two children without any exaggeration or an extenuation, and make the very page vital with their ways and words. In ."Miss Bobbie" there is an achievement which ranks very high in the literary art of describing a child. << the reviewer is discussing Suds & Miss Bobbie, an orphaned girl placed into a family of boisterous boys. Very Good/Good/None issued.