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The Younger Miss Nightingale.

Name: The Younger Miss Nightingale.
Author: Elsna (Hebe)

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FIRST EDITION,

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The dedication copy of a novel giving a romantic spin to the youthful years of Florence Nightingale, including ‘her difficulty and frustration and many backslidings; for Florence loved the world and was passionately emotional’ (dustjacket blurb). The author’s inscription to the flyleaf is ‘To Arnold Pilbeam, to whom this book is inscribed, from Hebe Elsna, April 59’. The recipient, to whom the book bears a printed dedication, was an actor and stage manager. ‘Hebe Elsna’ was one of a handful of pseudonyms used by Dorothy Ansle, a prolific author, who - the blurb on the dustjacket tells us - was descended from Dryden.

Author Elsna (Hebe)

Date 1959,

Binding original blue boards, backstrip lettered in gilt with a little waterstaining at foot of backstrip (visible to the dustjacket also), a few spots to top edge

Publisher Robert Hale,

Condition dustjacket a little chipped and rubbed to extremities with a tear at head of upper joint-fold (with attendant creasing), good

Pages pp. 188, crown 8vo,

Price: £100.00

Offered by Blackwell Rare Books

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