WILLIAMS, Ursula Moray (author). Joyce L. BRISLEY (illustrator). Pretenders' Island. New York; Alfred A. Knopf. 1942.
8vo.; publisher's pale green cloth decorated and lettered in blue, top edges bluish-grey, in pictorial dustwrapper; pp. [xii], 13-209 + [ii]; with black and white illustrations throughout by Joyce L. Brisley; a very good clean copy with a little uniform fading to cloth, through wrapper, and a touch of blistering to upper cover, internally clean with a neat and small contemporary ownership inscription to front free endpaper, in a pleasing, unclipped dustwrapper ($1.75) with nicking and small chipping to spine ends and corners, a 14mm closed tear to tail, now neatly repaired to the verso with archival tissue-tape, and some toning and marking tolower panel.
First American edition, as stated. A wartime juvenile by this well-loved children's writer, about a young girl, Jane, and her governess, who are evacuated to Little Pottering, where the child discovers an island of her very own.
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