Author: Ashford, Daisy
Title: The Young Visitors or Mr. Salteena's Plan (Preface by J. M. Barrie)
Description: Chatto & Windus, London, 1909. Reprint, Hardcover (Marbled boards & black cloth spine. Fair Condition/No Dust Jacket. Tissue-guarded b/w. frontis. portrait of the author & one further photo. illustration showing first page of the original manuscript. "The Young Visitors' is a short "society novel" written by Miss Daisy Ashford at the age of nine. The notebook containing the novel was rediscovered by her in adult life and sent by a friend to Frank Swinnerton, the English novelist, critic, editor and essayist. Published in 1919 by Chatto and Windus, with its original misspellings and an arch introduction by "Peter Pan" author J. M. Barrie, it was an immediate bestseller. Its child's view of high society (dukes and earls having ;levies' and residing in the 'Crystall Pallace') and its heavily romantic plot make it an engaging and enduring popular work. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. 86 pages. Spine has worked loose at edges and been re-glued in position. Previous owner's name & address in ink to fep.. Deckled outer & bottom edges (rough cut). Black titles to paper label spine. light wear to edges of boards. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 250 grams. Category: Fiction; Novels; Novella; Juvenilia; 19th century; Children. Inventory No: 5043.

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