School Spain by Starforth Astraea (3 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. First or early edition, 1931. Colour frontis and attractive dust jacket (unattributed). Prize label on front free endpaper and top page edges darkened but otherwise in very good condition. In bright dust jacket, price-clipped and with small tears and slight loss to corners. I can find little about the author except that she lived at 16 Kensington Road, Bath, had a son at Westminster School and was the author of a romantic novel, The Loth Word.…

Condition: Good. dw. Red cloth-covered boards. Dark blue lettering on covers. Dustwrapper worn at edges and a little soiled. Light wear to edges of covers. Neat handwritten prize dedication inside front cover.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Hardback. Dust Jacket. 8vo.pp. 255. Rare:Only 3 copies found at WorldCat (OCLC) the worldÕs largest library catalogue. Original publisher's cloth binding in cherry red, lettered dark blue. Illustrated dust jacket, lettered red and black features two goals in school uniform in a Spanish landscape. Frontispiece in colour depicts one of the young school girls in a church "The door was flung violently open." Girls juvenile fiction: After the death of her father, thirteen-year-old Jenny is sent to a boarding school for English and Spanish girls in Barcelona by her Uncle Joe. She soon makes friends and forms a secret society that meets in a disused chapel. When some of her uncle's important documents go missing, and a mysterious group begins using the chapel, Jenny must solve the puzzle. Very good in minus very good dust jacket. Slight fading of covers. Dust jacket chipped at edges and large thumb-size chip at head of spine.…