When They Were Girls – Girlhood Stories of Fourteen Famous Women

208pp, 15 black and white plates including frontispiece. Red cloth-covered boards with black titles on spine. 8vo. Moderately rubbed spine ends and board edges. Corners rubbed and rounded. Heavily cocked. Text block edges tanned, starting to fox; lightly soiled. Ex-lender’s stamps and labels on front endpapers, half-title, title and contents pages. Internally neat, clean, bright and tight. Dust jacket protected with plastic cover, attached to boards. Some chipping, shelf label on spine. An interesting look at the early lives of famous women including Florence Nightingale, The Bronte Sisters and Marie Curie.