Challenge to Jacqueline

228pp. Colour plate frontispiece and further line drawings in text, all by Robert Johnston. Orange cloth boards (sharp, strong, bright, with very gentle rubbing at edges). Some spotting on text block edge else internally neat, clean, bright and tight. Attractive prize presentation plate on fly leaf, indicating the book was awarded to Sylvia Worthey by the Ashford Sunday School Union in 1954. In its original, price clipped dust jacket, also illustrated by Johnston (a little rubbed at edges, a couple of small edge chips, slightly frayed at head of spine, shelf wear on verso). Jacket fitted with archival-quality mylar wrapper to protect & prolong its life. It is not adhered to the book or to the jacket. Jacqueline Lane and her mother have to leave the city and move back to the small country town they left ten years earlier. A lovely, vintage volume of this classic children’s story. Although there was a later reprint of this book, in 1957, it remains relatively uncommon, especially in its first edition with a dust jacket.

Johnston, Robert

children’s story, Vintage Books, prize plate