Celebrations at Thrush Green.**

UK,12mo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.FINE-/FINE-.No owner inscrptn,AND no price-clip to dw/dj,as no publisher price,these generally believed to be an export copy which precedes the trade issue. Bright,crisp,clean,matt,colour pictorial artwork by John S.
Goodall illustrated upper wrap+spine/backstrip,with negligible shelf-wear and creasing to edges - no nicks or tears present. Spine/backstrip slightly sunned/faded.Top+fore-edges though lightly aged/toned are clean; contents bright,tight and pristine
- an unread copy? Bright,clean,publisher's original plain blue cloth boards with bright,crisp,blocked silver gilt letters to spine/
backstrip with immaculate,grey+white pictorial line-illustrated endpapers.UK,12mo HB+dw/dj,1st edn,1-151pp+half-title+title pages,b/w line-illustrated page opposite contents list/table,10 chapters and several part-page b/w line illus throughout the text and the book,all by John S. Goodall.
Though the statue of Nathaniel Patten,a Victorian missionary, has graced the village green for years,little was known at Thrush Green about its most distinguished son - until the arrival of a strange letter.The news of the existence of letters from Nathaniel Patten to the Reverend Octavius Fennel,then Rector of Thrush Green,generates much excitement.
Harold Shoosmith,at whose instigation the statue was erected, is especially interested to learn more about the young missionary and the older man who befriended and encouraged him;and to discover that it will soon be a hundred years since the opening of the mission school in Africa.That,surely,calls for a celebration.
When the villagers of Thrush Green decide to combine the festivities with those for the centenary of the village school, plans are put in hand for a very special celebration indeed.But with Winnie Bailey's health not as good as it should be,retired schoolteachers Dorothy Watson and little Agnes Fogerty worrying about the new headmaster,Alan Lester,might be over-ambitious and Harold's fears that his appeal for the African mission will not be adequately supported,there are some anxieties amidst the preparations - until,when the long- anticipated day arrives,events culminate in more than one cause for rejoicing.With this delightful story of the Cotswold village and its much-loved residents,Miss Read's warm and humorous observation of the drama of country life will captivate her many readers once again.
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John Strickland Goodall (born 1908).Works as John S. Goodall or J.S.Goodall.Born Heacham,Norfolk,son of a heart specialist.
After leaving Harrow School,he worked in the studios of Sir Arthur Cope RA and E. Watson Nicol under whom he 'was taught with loving care to be a mid-Victorian art student' (The Connoisseur,July 1968).He also studied under Harold Speed and at the Royal Academy Schools (c1930).Served in the Royal Norfolk Regiment(1939-46).He concentrated on line drawing in the 1930s and began to paint in watercolour whilst stationed in India at the end of WWII.
Since then,his extensive travels (e.g. twice round the world on a cargo boat) have provided him with many landscape subjects; he also paints conversation pieces and the late 19thC pastiches in watercolour and gouache.As an illustrator,he works in b/w (sometimes in silhouette),and full colour,turning his
'Victorian' early training to good account in evocative period tableaux.In his wordless picture books he evolved an effective method of telling stories by means of half pages placed between each double-page spread.Elected RBA.RI.
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