Diana's Feathers.
Cambridge: Riverside Press, Houghton Mifflin Co. Boston and New York, 1935, early printing; turquoise cloth binding with a girl knitting, endpapers with girls reading on the lawn of their school, b/w illustrations, wrap around coloured illustration on jacket identical to endpapers, 8vo; 244 pp. Juvenile hardback.
Diana has an ingenious imagination, but this year at Clumber Hall she will turn it into a Force For Good! A lively, amusing book true to the boarding school experience of its era. With Deco style lithos by an artist and illustrator who taught at many similar schools.
CONDITION: Very Good Plus in Very Good jacket; no names; bright, clean cloth binding; two dark stamps from the Houghton Mifflin Trade Reference Library in the old building at 2 Park Street, Boston; several light spots on top edge and one corner tip bumped, otherwise very tight and clean with some pages still uncut; in lightly edgeworn jacket with small pull tear on front and several tears to 1" and one 2.5" creased tear on lower back; unclipped 2.00. Item #21915
$175