The Little Dancer de Hill, Lorna - 1997

Thomas Nelson Publishers, 1957. Hardcover. Good/Acceptable. 1957. No Edition Remarks. 151 pages. Signed by the author. Pictorial dust jacket over yellow cloth. Author's signature to fep. Moderate tanning, with light foxing and marking to pages. Heavy tanning to text block edges. Some rub-marking and tanning to pastedowns and endpapers with inscriptions to front. Boards have mild shelf wear with light rubbing and corner bumping. Some light marking and sunning. Boards are slightly bowed. Unclipped jacket is split in two pieces with light edge-wear with minor tears and chipping. Moderate tanning and creasing, with rubbing and marking.

London: Award Publications, 1997 Laminated pictorial boards, b&w illstns by Anne Grahame Johnstone. Very tidy, just a name in front. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall

London: Nelson, 1957 Green cloth titled in gilt on spine, pictorial endpapers, colour frontis and b&w illstns by Esme Verity. Code # on spine, a touch of foxing in edges and prelims. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall

London: Thomas Nelson and sons, 1956. First edition (ie first impression), hardback. 8vo (20cm by 14cm), viii, 208pp. 3 colour plates and text illustrations by Esme Verity. Original green cloth, dustwrapper. Minor spotting to the edges of the text block, bookplate, else the book is in very good condition. The dustwrapper is in near-VG condition (minor chafing of the extremities, price-clipped).

London: Thomas Nelson & Sons, 1957 VG+/VG-. 8vo. original green cloth gilt (slightly rubbed, bookseller's label and faint RSM to FFE, a little leaf edge toning) in dustwrapper (price-clipped, edges a little rubbed and nicked, some silverfishing); pp. viii, 208 (last blank), with frontispiece, line drawings and endpaper maps. A very good copy. [Not in Neate]. The third novel in the 'Dancing Peel' series of ballet based stories, this one involving rock climbing in the Cuillin Hills of Skye.. Reprint. Hard Cover. VG+/VG-. Illus. by Esmer Verity.

London: Thomas Nelson & Sons. VG/G+. 1956. 1st Printing. Hardcover. Slight spine lean. Edgewear and fading to boards, especially at spine head and foot. Age-toning/foxing to pages, page block edges and to dustjacket. Previous owner's name on a front free endpaper. Rubbing, chips and closed tears to dustjacket; Binding is solid, pages are clean with no markings; B&W and color illustrations; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 208 p. .

London: Thomas Nelson, 1957 Reprint. HB. Cloth, and pictorial dustjacket. 208pp. With 3 colour plates and 8 line drawings by Esmé Verity. Ballet story partly set on the Isle of Skye. Good+ in Good+ protected jacket. Light rubbing and fading to cover edges. Pages clean apart from small stain to one and large felf pen name on seond flyleaf. Jacket front bright with some light marking, larger mark to back, edges rubbed with small losses, large clipping to front flap under price.