Making Up the Jewels

First edition, first printing. Undated but produced to war economy standards so published between 1942 and 1949, confirmed by date on prize plate. Monochrome frontispiece. 96pp. Quarter bound in blue cloth over paper-covered boards, with black lettering on front panel. 12mo. Boards mildly toned at edges, a little rubbed and faded on spine tips. Prize presentation plate on front free endpaper indicating the volume was presented to Margaret Brown, for good attendance at a Baptist Sunday School, in 1949, else internally neat, clean, bright and tight. In its original, worn and torn dust jacket, with minor loss at spine head, and heavy staining on verso. Dust jacket now protected in an archival quality Mylar wrapper, fitted without the use of tape or adhesives. Grace Pettman was a popular and prolific writer in the early part of the 20th century, also writing as Spencer Deane, Helen Kent and Nigel Strong. This is one of her later, and much harder to find titles. As well as children’s fiction, Pettman also wrote a history of Cavendish Baptist Church in Ramsgate, Kent – the town in which she was born and lived for most of her life.