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    Reference 3939 (2178)
    Category Miscellaneous
    Author Brazil, Angela (Illustrated by Wightman, W.E.)
    Title Captain Peggie
    Publishing Information London: Blackie & Son Limited, 1924
    Description First Edition: (Points match Sue Sims identification points for 1st ed.) 319 pages, illustrated , 6 b/w plates. Missing front end paper, 1 plate loose. Contents clean. An entertaining school story about a girl who unexpectedly becomes house captain, earning her the jealousy of other girls who think they should have been given the position, by one of the most popular girls' school story writers of the first half of the 20th century, Angela Brazil. It also includes a convincing account of a cultural school trip, by cross-Channel steamship and train, to Italy, which would have been quite a novelty in the early 1920s. Attractive illustrations of 1920s schoolgirls by W E Wightman.
    Price £10.00
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