[Item #46723] Jessica's Triumph. Grace LE BARON, Amy Brooks.

Jessica's Triumph

Boston: Lee and Shepard, 1901. Edition not stated. Octavo (16.5cm); blue publisher's cloth, illustrated and lettered in b/w, in rare brown pictorial dustwrapper; vii,168pp, frontis, 3 plates. Comprehensive toning and foxing, especially to endpapers; offsetting on pg. 166 (possibly from bookmark); crown of spine frayed on boards; dustwrapper has significant material loss to crown/heel of spine and panels, further chipping/short tears to extremities. Just about Very Good, in Good dustwrapper.

The second installment in Grace Le Baron's "Queer Janet" series for young girls, this tale concerns an unlikely friendship forged between the wealthy Cora Glyndon and Jessie Fitzpatrick, a humble girl from Scotland with a hidden talent. Dustwrapper features advertisements for addional Le Baron books. With frontispiece and 3 b/w plate illustrations by Amy Brooks, author/illustrator of the contemporary Dorothy Dainty series.

Price: $125.00

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