Tiddeman l e lizzie ellen (2 Ergebnisse)

Hardcover. Zustand: Good+. First Edition. Book.

"You would only have needed to put a capital K for Kitty to make it an exact description of the little maid. Her hair was cut short, and as it was very thick and curled tightly, her school-fellows took it into their heads to say that it was like a nigger's; so they called her Topsy, and to this name she answered readily enough when it suited her." Pp.96/12(ads for other publications), colour frontispiece, prize award dated 1910 to front free endpaper, webbing showing to title page/frontispiece inner hinge but holding. Blue cloth illustrated in blue, white and black with a boy and girl seated at a window reading a book and a cat to lower corner, illustration to spine, corners a little rubbed. G+.…