Beggar's Penny

[1950] 1st UK edition, preceded by publication in the USA earlier the same year. 224pp. Colour plate frontispiece. Publisher's cloth-covered boards (rubbed and rounded on corners, worn and faded, sunned spine). Lending sheet on front endpaper. Webbing exposed between pp16-17, else internally fresh and clean. In its original dust jacket rubbed at edges, chapping in places, crumbling with minor loss at spine head, cracked along lower half of spine and peeled around). Dust jacket now in archival-quality mylar wrapper to protect & prolong the life of the jacket. It is not adhered to the book or to the jacket. A vintage historical novel for younger readers, The Beggar's Penny is a vivid and moving story of the lives of three children, told against the backdrop of the besieged city of Leyden in Holland in 1574.