DELVES, NANCY

Fifth Form Rivals, a School Tale for Girls

London: Sampson Low, nd. Hardcover. Thick 8vo hbk with orange cloth boards; illustration of girls head on front cover; black decoration to spine; wear to cover edges; general wear commensurate with age;.

-- Peakirk Books

Book number: 62512

Catalogue: To Be Sorted

Keywords: Girls School Stories

DELVES, NANCY

The Fourth Form, a School Tale for Girls

London: Sampson Low, nd. Hardcover. 8vo hbk; a scarce title by this author; orange cloth boards; cloth at ends of spine worn/starting to split; black illus to cover & decoration to spine; fep has piece torn off; b/w frontis; 250 pp plus adverts at rear; contents clean & sound;.

-- Peakirk Books

Book number: 50162

Catalogue: To Be Sorted

Keywords: Girls School Stories

DELVES, NANCY

The Fourth Form, a School Tale for Girls

London: Sampson Low, nd. Hardcover. 8vo hbk; a scarce title by this author; orange cloth boards; cloth at ends of spine slightly worn; black illus to cover & decoration to spine; b/w frontis; 250 pp plus 40pp adverts at rear; contents clean & sound;.

-- Peakirk Books

Book number: 62524

Catalogue: To Be Sorted

Keywords: Girls School Stories

DELVES, NANCY

Thrills for the Lower Fifth

London, Juvenile Productions Ltd.. Hardcover , 18cm. gift inscription 1st blank page dated 1944, 253 clean well bound pp, Author info - Born in 1905 in Hoylake on the Wirral, Annie Myfanwy Delves was the daughter of accountant John Edwin Delves, and his wife Sarah Catherine Williams. At some point in her youth, her family moved to Deganwy in Caernarvonshire, a setting Delves would later use in a number of her books. She married Godfrey Edmund Fitzhugh in 1931, and had one son. Delves served in the ATS (Auxiliary Territorial Service) during the Second World War. She was divorced from Fitzhugh in 1948, and moved to Cork, where she lived until her death in 1959. An author in the girls' school story genre, Delves' work is very much in the style of Angela Brazil. Very Good/No Jacket.

-- Little Lane Books

Book number: 009394

Catalogue: Fiction

MARRYAT, CAPTAIN, WILLIAM H. G. KINGSTON, R. M. BALLANTYNE, G. GIBBARD JACKSON, NANCY DELVES, EDITED BY HOWARD MARSHAL

The Children Of The New Forest, Peter The Whaler: His Early Life and Adventures in the arctic Regions, The Dog Crusoe and His Master: A Story of Adventures in the Western Praries, Air Spies Of The North Sea, Masterman Ready or The Wreck of the "Pacific", The Young Fur-Traders, Manco, The Peruvian Chief or An Englishman's Adventures in the Country of the Incas, Thrills for the Lower Fifth: A School Story for Girls, The Settlers In Canada, The World Of Ice or The Whaling Cruise of "The Dolphin" and the Adventures of Her Crew in the Polar Regions, [Martyn Library Series]

Published by Juvenile Productions Ltd. London, c.1937. 10 volumes (9-18) in the 1930's Martyn Library paperback series, vintage red Martyn Library covers with paper dustjackets, attractive edited reprints of classic adventure stories for boys and girls, Reprint, mild foxing to cover and fore edges, very clean interiors, slight stains inside the World of Ice and the Dog Crusoe, books generally in very good condition, all dustjackets well-preserved and clean, mild foxing, small stain to front of World of Ice, Octavo, Paperback.

-- Keogh's Books, Secondhand & Antiquarian

Book number: 49252

Keywords: Martyn Library, Marryat, Captain, William H. G. Kingston, R. M. Ballantyne, G. Gibbard Jackson, Nancy Delves, Howard Marshal [ed], The Children of the New Forest, Peter The Whaler, The Dog Crusoe, Air Spies of The North Sea, Masterman Ready, The Young Fur