Elsie Jeanette Oxenham — A Fiddler for the Abbey
London, Frederick Muller, 1948 . First edition. Cloth. An excellent example of the first edition of the thirty-third novel in the Abbey series by Elsie J. Oxenham. The first edition, first impression, in the publisher's original price unclipped dust wrapper.Illustrated with a frontispiece and a number of vignettes by Margaret Horder.In this thirty-third novel about the Hamlet Club and Abbey friends, a talented fiddler joins the club, and a new Queen of the club is crowned.This is the sixth work in the second generation Abbey series.With the 1949 inscription of F. Coast to the front free endpaper. In the publisher's original cloth binding, with price unclipped dust wrapper. Externally, excellent. Inscription to front free endpaper. A touch of sunning to dust wrapper back strip, with minor edgewear to head of back strip. Internally, firmly bound. Pages clean and bright. Near Fine . Ill.: Margaret Horder. Near Fine/Near Fine.
