"Outside of a dog, man's best friend is a book. Inside of a dog, it's too dark to read."
— Groucho Marx
The Girls of St. Gabriel's, or, Life at a French School.
London and Edinburgh: W. & R. Chambers, 1905. [Girls' School Story] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 14cm), pp.[8] 296 [32]. With six black and white illustrated plates, including a frontispiece, by Tarrant. Publisher's green cloth with gilt titles, and black, white and pink decoration, to spine and upper. Dark brown endpapers. School prize inscription in black ink to reverse of frontispiece, dated 1906. Two plates tipped back in, with some wear to edges. Some toning and spotting to edges. Light general wear to cloth, with some rubbing to colours on spine. Very good. Item #62413
Price: £45.00
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