The Head of Kay's
by P. G. Wodehouse
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good/No Jacket
- Seller
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Blackpool, Lancashire, United Kingdom
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About This Item
London: A. & C. Black, Ltd., 1922. Reprint. . Cloth Bound Boards. Very Good/No Jacket. 1922 Reprint. Size octavo, 280 pages. Red cloth covered boards with black titles to front cover and spine, no dust jacket. Condition very good, corners and spine ends slightly rubbed and bumped, pages slightly toned, a few odd sporadic spots to margins of random pages, previous owner's name to front end-paper and previous owner's bookplate to front paste-down else contents clean. The Previous owner's bookplate is that of George MacDonald Fraser. Ex-libris George Macdonald Fraser, author and creator of the Flashman series. Reprint of P. G. Wodehouse's tale of a riotous boy's school. With a coloured frontispiece. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
Synopsis
From the book:When we get licked tomorrow by half-a-dozen wickets, said Jimmy Silver, lilting his chair until the back touched the wall, "don't say I didn't warn you. If you fellows take down what I say from time to time in note-books, as you ought to do, you'll remember that I offered to give anyone odds that Kay's would out us in the final. I always said that a really hot man like Fenn was more good to a side than half-a-dozen ordinary men. He can do all the bowling and all the batting. All the fielding, too, in the slips." Tea was just over at Blackburn's, and the bulk of the house had gone across to preparation in the school buildings. The prefects, as was their custom, lingered on to finish the meal at their leisure. These after-tea conversations were quite an institution at Blackburn's. The labours of the day were over, and the time for preparation for the morrow had not yet come. It would be time to be thinking of that in another hour. Meanwhile, a little relaxation might be enjoyed. Especially so as this was the last day but two of the summer term, and all necessity for working after tea had ceased with the arrival of the last lap of the examinations.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Lazarus Books Limited
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 016308
- Title
- The Head of Kay's
- Author
- P. G. Wodehouse
- Format/Binding
- Cloth Bound Boards
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Reprint.
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- A. & C. Black, Ltd.
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1922
- Keywords
- FICTION HUMOUR CHILD'S CHILDREN'S ADULT BOARDING SCHOOL STORIES BOYS BOYS'
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About the Seller
Lazarus Books Limited
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Blackpool, Lancashire
About Lazarus Books Limited
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- Jacket
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- Bookplate
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- Octavo
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- G
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- Spine
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- Reprint
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- Cloth
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