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MEADE**, L. T: : THE HILL-TOP GIRL

LONDON.W. & R. CHAMBERS LTD,1906.

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UK,8vo HB,1st edn.VG.Familial,handwritten ink gift presentation inscrptn to recto of front free endpaper.Bright,crisp,clean with some minor discolouration and marks - commensurate with book's age,publisher's original,bevelled,dark green cloth boards/ covers with blind-tooled 3-colour (white, black,and gilt) illustration of a girl with gilt hair and a white dress,black stockings and shoes,looking out over a landscape from a hill-top to the front board/cover and with bright,crisp,stamped gilt title+author lettering; slightly darkened spine/backstrip also with an upright rectangular panelled colour illustration and also with bright,crisp, stamped gilt title/author and publisher lettering; rear board/cover plain and undecorated with some minimal spots blemishes,clean plain eps,hinges solid and sound without any cracking.Negligible shelf-wear,bumping,creasing to edges and corners - corner tips minimally bumped, rubbed - no nicks,tears or splits present. All edges gilt (aeg); contents generally bright,tight and clean with very minimal and occasional foxing/spotting - no intentional dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners - would appear unread, apart from my own collation.Generally clean,any marring,discolouration or other imperfections commensurate with book's age.UK,8vo HB,1st edn,2-405pp [paginated] includes Books I+II comprising XIII (13) and IX (9) chapters respectively, 10 b/w halftone illus (includes frntis) each with clean tissue guards,by Lewis Baumer who also designed the front cover illustration - all called for and present - interspersed throughout the text and the book,plus [unpaginated] half-title,b/w illus frntis+tissue guard,title page,and a contents list/table with blank recto,an illustrations list/table with publisher's author's other titles listed to recto of same,and to the rear 2pp advert for Mrs Molesworth titles; 'Hoodie' and 'Hermy - The story of a little girl.' respectively. An exceptional,lovely bright example. A highly collected and prolific children's books author in her typical style and format and will be an important and welcome addition to the canon. L. T. Meade [1844-1914] was the pseudonym of Elizabeth Thomasina Meade Smith,a prolific writer of girls' stories and not generally known, crime and sci-fi novels too.Writing from the age of 17,and in her lifetime, she produced over 300 books,being so prolific that no fewer than eleven new titles under her byline appeared in the first few years after her death. Lewis Christopher Edward Baumer (1870- 1963).Worked as Lewis Baumer.Born and brought up in St. John's Wood,London. Encouraged by his parents to take up art, he attended St. John's Wood Art School,the South Kensington Schools and the Royal Academy Schools.He painted flowers and portraits of women and children in watercolour,pastel and oil; worked in b/w and made etchings. From the 1920s he concentrated on drawing for 'Punch' - a satirical/humour periodical,and other magazines;'The Graphic','The Idler','The Pall Mall Magazine','The Sketch' and 'The Strand Magazine' amongst others. R G G Price wrote of his 'Punch' cartoons that 'he was in a way the leader and certainly the most popular of the social commentators,using "social" in the old rather than the new sense'. In his book illustrations,as in his other work,'bright,young things' predominated - charming,effervescent,weightless creatures,depicted with Baumer's characteristically light touch. Elected RI (1921). Please contact seller,because of the weight and the value of this item for correct and insured (where necessary) shipping/P+p quotes - particularly ALL overseas buyers - BEFORE ordering through the order page!

UK,8vo HB,1st edn.
Not SIGNED.

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