Vintage Romance Fiction: Jemima Rides by Anne Hepple Hardcover in Dust Jacket ca. 1935 Hutchinson London

Title: Jemima Rides

Author: Anne Hepple

Description: No date (ca. 1935), 15th Thousand (stated on both the jacket and the title page). Pale red cloth boards with black lettering and ruling. Slightly spine cocked; very light edge-wear; pale blemish at foot of front board. Early gift inscription on ffep. Pages are faintly toned; bit of foxing to the first few leaves and to fore-edge of text block. Dust jacket rubbed; little bit of chipping to corners and head and foot of spine; heavy rubbing at edges. DJ in clear archival sleeve. xii, 288, plus [20] pp. publisher's ads.

Published as one of Hutchinson's "Famous 3/6 Novels." No publication date is given, but based on the list of Hepple's books listed in the advertising at the rear, this would have been issued around 1935. Anne Hepple Dickinson (1877-1959), aka Anne Hepple, was an English author of romantic novels and was also the first editor of "The Woman's Magazine" (London), 1931-1934. The story of Jemima, a charming young lady, the youngest of five sisters, who follows an invited to spend time at a farmhouse in Northumberland. In this setting in the glorious English countryside she meets two young farm students and commences to plan for the happiness of her sisters.

Binding: Hardcover
Condition: Good
Jacket Condition: Good

Publisher: Hutchinson & Co.
Place: London
Year: no date give; ca. 1935

Language: English

ISBN: n/a

Keywords: fiction, novel, romance, English, Northumberland,