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England: Ace Books, 1962. Soft cover. Good. fair to good condition. moderate wear. binding tight, pages age toned. stamped by seller inside front cover. pictures available upon request.
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The Custard Boys.
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London, Rupert Hart-Davis. 1960. 1st.. 8.0 x 5.25 inches. In black cloth covers with silver gilt to spine. With illustrated dustwrapper. In very good condition with very good dustwrapper. (d/w. Spine slightly darkened. Small tears to top edge. Not price clipped. With protective plastic wrap). Mild foxing to edges. Neat inscription and ExLibris label to front endpapers. Author’s obituary pasted to front endpaper. Else a clean and tight copy. 219 pp. A young boy is evacuated to Norfolk in WWII. He becomes involved with a gang of cruel and amoral boys and the events which follow turn him into a conscientious objector.
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Rupert Hart-Davis. Good. 1960. Ist Edition. Hardcover. Clean hardback tightly bound in black cloth with silver titles, cloth has minor rubbing at edges and some white marks on front board/spine, no inscriptions. 220 pages .
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THE CUSTARD BOYS
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Brattleboro, Vermont, United States
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8vo in cloth with dust jacket. 219 pp. Stated first printing. VG/VG-. Moderate wear and soiling to price-clipped dust jacket which is in a brand new Brodart clear protective sleeve. Foxing to top edge. Interior is pristine. No writing or markings of any kind. Photo is of the actual book you will receive. Ships wrapped in bubble wrap and packed securely in a box.
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Seneca, Pennsylvania, United States
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New York: Farrar, Straus & Cudahy, 1961. (1961), 219pp, light shelfwear to cover, small piece of metal or plastic stuck to center of front cover, slight rubbing & light edgewear to dj, contents clean & unmarked.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good.
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Hyde, Cheshire, United Kingdom
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London: Rupert Hart-Davis, 1960. Neat date inside both front and rear boards. No other marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with unmarked black cloth boards, very clear silver lettering to spine and bumping to to upper front corner. 219pp. Boy's school story in the immediate aftermath of World War Two.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. 8 x 5.25 inches.
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San Francisco, California, United States
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New York: Farrar, Straus and Cudahy, 1961. Hardcover. 219p., very good stated first US edition in quarter cloth boards and unclipped, lightly edgeworn dj. The first UK edition is Young 3175*. Debut novel set in Norfolk, UK during WWII. War games bewteen 13 and 14 year old boys and a special friendship between one of the boys and a Jewish-Austrian refugee. Filmed in 1962 as "Reach for Glory" and again as "Custard Boys" in 1979, compared to "Lord of the Flies
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THE CUSTARD BOYS.
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London, Greater London, United Kingdom
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London,, 1960. First Edition. Hardback. Dust Jacket.. Fine in complete, clean, very good+ dust wrapper; slightly scuffed at rear, two very short closed tears and faint edgewear. Excellent condition. No inscriptions, not price-clipped. . 8vo. pp 219. Original publisher's black cloth, lettered silver on spine. Dust jacket designed by Raymond Briggs
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London, Greater London, United Kingdom
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London: Rupert Hart-Davis 1960. 8vo. First Edition 219 pp., in an unclipped dustjacket with an early design by illustrator and writer Raymond Briggs. Very Good in Very Good jacket which has some small tears chips and folds at the head and base of the spine. Hardcover with some dents to the head and tail of the spine. Signed by the author, John Rae | October 1960. A novel of an evacuated teenager in Norfolk, with cruel, amoral teenage schoolboy gangs. Made into the film 'Reach for Glory', which drew comparisons with William Golding's Lord of he Flies . Very Good. Hardcover. First Edition. 1960.
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