WEBSTER, Jean - Daddy-Long-Legs - (Hardcover in Wrapper)

Book and wrapper still in good condition - Slight old tape ghosts of the long ago plastic cover that protected it for 60 odd years - Published by J.M.Dent & Sons Ltd., London, 1967. (originally written in 1912) - 160 pages - 1st printing in Dent Children's Illustrated Classics - Four colour plates by Harry Fairbairn with Judy looking a bit like Leslie Caron who played in the film with Fred Astaire as Daddy-Long-Legs - Line drawings in text by the author - Design of binding & endpapers by Alexander H. Williamson . in this case a shadow of a tall skinny man, with top hat & cane & young girl with plaits. greyish blue on pale brown, with title lettering in blue.  >>>   When Jerusha Abbott, an eighteen-year-old girl living in an orphan asylum, was told that a mysterious millionaire had agreed to pay for her education, it was like a dream come true. For the first time in her life, she had someone she could pretend was "family." But everything was not perfect, for he chose to remain anonymous and asked that she only write him concerning her progress in school. Who was this mysterious gentleman and would Jerusha ever meet him?    .  (Goodreads)