Marjorie Dean High-School Senior

New York: A.L. Burt Company, Publishers, 1917. Cloth. Fine/very good. 8vo; 302pp + [12]pp publisher's ads; color pictorial on grey cloth over board featuring girls in uniform with a basket ball and school pennant; gift inscription dated 1928 on ffep; frontispiece; unclipped unpriced dust jacket, color pictorial front and publisher's ad to rear; chipping to edges, closed tear to rear dj; fine in very good minus dj. One of a series of books authored by Josephine Chase under the pseudonym Pauline Lester for the A.L. Burt Company from 1917 to 1930. The fictional character, Marjorie Dean, is followed through several book series beginning with Marjorie Dean High School, followed by the Marjorie Dean College Series, and finishing with the Marjorie Dean Post-Graduate Series. A progressive series at the time it was published for its ideas and the story line of a highly educated woman in the early 20th century.