A Handful Of Thieves

SOFTBACK SHIPPED FROM THE UK.* Edn: 1st. Thus.* Impression: 1st.* Date of Publication: 1970 (1967)* Publisher: Puffin Books.* Binding and cover condition: Colour-illustrated soft card covers. No bumps or rubs. Minimal shelf wear to edges & corners. Single crease to spine not to hinge. Slight dish. GD++* Contents condition: PRIVATE COPY NOT EX-LIBRARY. Clean, crisp & tight. No annotations, inscriptions or marks to text, slight age to paper throughout especially to page margins and edges. VG* Illustrations: None.* Pages: 140 pp. text. iv pp. author?s notes and advertisements at rear.* Product Description:- ?This is the story of how we became a gang of thieves. My sister Jinny says I shouldn?t start like this, giving away the story in the first sentence, but I think she?s wrong. If you?re writing a book, you?ve got to make sure the right sort of people read it, haven?t you?? So begins Nina Bawden?s children?s novel ?A Handful of Thieves?, a story narrated by Fred McAlpine who tells of his adventures with his four friends: Sid, Algy, Rosie and Rosie?s ?ghastly friend? Clio, all of whom congregate regularly at an abandoned motor racing track, where their meetings are held in an enormous old Humber saloon car.* This is a VG text copy of the 1st./1st thus. with minimal shelf wear reducing it to GD++.*