Author: ASHFORD (Daisy):
Title: The Young Visiters or, Mr. Salteenas Plan. With a Preface by J. M. Barrie.
Description: London: Chatto & Windus, [1919.] Seventh Impression. Small 8vo, pp. 86 [87 printer's imprint, 88 blank], portrait of author as frontispiece, facsimile of first page of ms. opposite page 19, contemporary (?original) marbled boards, linen spine, paper label (chipped); title-page browned from tissue guard, corners worn, a little shaken in casing. With the autograph "Rowena Ross" on the lower margin of the recto of the front free end-paper. Readers of a certain age will never get beyond the first line: "Mr Salteena was an elderly man of 42...." Of course, the author was nine when she wrote the work.

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