Elsie Jeanette Oxenham — An Abbey Champion

London, Frederick Muller Ltd. 1946 . First edition. Cloth. The first edition of the fourth entry in Elsie J. Oxenhams second generation Abbey girls series. The first edition, first impression of this work, in the publisher's original price unclipped dust wrapper.With a frontispiece and a small number of vignette illustrations by Margaret Horder.In this novel, 'the story shows how the Hamlet Club had fallen on evil days, and how a new start and a new life came through the energy of the eldest member of the next generation', according to the publisher.With the inscription of J. Coast, December 1948 to the front free endpaper. In the publisher's original cloth binding, with price unclipped dust wrapper. Externally, fine. Inscription to front free endpaper. Significant closed tear to dust wrapper front wrap head, with small loss of paper to back strip head. Light chipping to back strip tail. Rubbing to the head of the fore edge of the front wrap. Internally, firmly bound. Pages bright, with only the odd spot. Near Fine . Ill.: Margaret Horder. Near Fine/Very Good.