Fairlie Bruce (Dorita) The New Dimsie Omnibus
£85
Comprising Dimsie Among the Prefects; Dimsie, Head Girl, Dimsie Grows Up
London, OUP; Umphrey Milford, 1937.
Omnibus edition. 8vo. Original green cloth. Dust-jacket, priced 3/6.
An collection of three key tales from the Dimsie series, second in popularity only to Angela Brazil’s during the 1920s and 1930s. The Dimsie books alone had sold half a million hardback copies by 1947.
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Some foxing; cloth slightly rubbed and bumped; jacket with some spotting and toning to spine and lower panel, small closed tear near head of spine, but upper panel very good.
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