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Auction No 372, Tag: Girls' Fiction

5 Lots (displaying 1 - 5)

Elinor Brent-Dyer First Editions published by Chambers comprising "Shocks for the Chalet School", 1952;

Lot: 125

  • Auction Date: Wed 22nd Nov 2017 12:00 GMT (Ended)
  • Est: £40 - £50
SOLD £26
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Elinor Brent-Dyer First Editions published by Chambers comprising Shocks for the Chalet School, 1952; A Future Chalet School Girl, 1962; Theodora and the Chalet School, 1959 (spine faded), and A Problem for the Chalet School,1956 (prize bookplate, text browned throughout). Original cloth, lacking d/jkts; fair to fine. (4)   

Elinor Brent-Dyer selection published W. & R. Chambers including "Changes for the Chalet School", 1953, 1st Edn, VG;

Lot: 126

  • Auction Date: Wed 22nd Nov 2017 12:00 GMT (Ended)
  • Est: £40 - £60
SOLD £32
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Elinor Brent-Dyer selection published W. & R. Chambers including Changes for the Chalet School, 1953, 1st Edn, VG; Bride Leads the Chalet School, 1955, browning to text; Jo to the Rescue 1951 (front panel of d/jkt laid down on front cover); Summer Term at the Chalet School, 1965 (spine faded); and 7 others in mixed condition including three Firsts. Poor to VG. (11)

Elinor Brent-Dyer selection including "The Chalet School in Oberland", Chambers, 1958 in complete d/jkt,

Lot: 127

  • Auction Date: Wed 22nd Nov 2017 12:00 GMT (Ended)
  • Est: £50 - £50
SOLD £46
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Elinor Brent-Dyer selection including The Chalet School in Oberland, Chambers, 1958 in complete d/jkt, recased with new endpapers; The Wrong Chalet School 1958, in VG complete d/jkt; Trials for the Chalet School 1959, First Edn, in poor (& repaired) d/jkt; A Problem for the Chalet School 1956, First Edn., in fair d/jkt (tape stains to flaps, text browned); and two others in d/jkts. Mixed condition. (6)

Elinor Brent-Dyer First Editions in dustjackets comprising "Ruey Richardson – Chaletian" [1960]; "The Chalet School Triplets"

Lot: 128

  • Auction Date: Wed 22nd Nov 2017 12:00 GMT (Ended)
  • Est: £80 - £120
SOLD £74
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Elinor Brent-Dyer First Editions in dustjackets comprising Ruey Richardson – Chaletian [1960]; The Chalet School Triplets [1963], ex-library; The Chalet School Reunion, 1963; Jane and the Chalet School, 1964 (d/jkt with peripheral creasing); Adrienne and the Chalet School 1965 (d/jkt chipped at tail of spine); Challenge for the Chalet School 1966 (d/jkt chipped at top & tail of spine); Althea Joins the Chalet School 1969 (price-clipped); and Prefects of the Chalet School 1970 (price-clipped). Last title with small inked number top of endpaper and Triplets with library markings o/w VG/F internally.(8)

Girls Gone By publications comprising softback reprints of novels by Elinor Brent-Dyer (9) and Malcolm Saville (2),

Lot: 129

  • Auction Date: Wed 22nd Nov 2017 12:00 GMT (Ended)
  • Est: £50 - £60
SOLD £36
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Girls Gone By publications comprising softback reprints of novels by Elinor Brent-Dyer (9) and Malcolm Saville (2), plus some related girls’ fiction, Chalet Club publications, and spoof novels by Jackie Roberts & Merryn Williams. VG/VF (23). Also photocopies of Chalet Club News Letters