MRS PRINGLE.

UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.FINE/FINE.No owner inscrptn and no price-clip to dw/dj.Bright,crisp,clean,matt,colour pictorial artwork,by J.S. Goodall, illustrated dw/dj,with blue+black lettering; with negligible shelf-wear and creasing to edges and corners - no nicks or tears present.Top+fore- edges generally bright and clean - though lightly toned; contents bright, tight,clean - pristine - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners, appears unread - apart from my own collation.Bright,crisp,clean,sharp-cornered,publisher's original,plain blue cloth boards with bright,crisp, stamped gilt letters to spine/backstrip and immaculate blue+white illustrated endpapers.UK,slim 8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn,1-165pp [paginated] includes 12 chapters,b/w illus by J.S. Goodall throughout the text and the book,plus [unpaginated] half-title+title pages,dedication with b/w vignette illustration to it's recto,contents list with b/w illustrated frntis to it's recto and a b/w vignette repeated from ep illustration,illustrated blank at rear. Mrs Pringle,the lugubrious school cleaner,has always been a favourite character in the Fairacre series.Here,through the eyes and anecdotes of the schoolmistress,Miss Read,and others,we trace Maud Pringle's life from childhood visits to the village from her Caxley home,through her working days before her marriage to Fred Pringle,and on to her long association with Fairacre School.We meet again many old friends as they cross Mrs Pringle's path: Mr Willet the caretaker; the ever-patient vicar Mr Partridge; Miss Clare,now retired; Mrs Pringle's feather-witted niece Minnie; and Miss Read's friend Amy,still matchmaking (in vain). Together with Mrs P - infuriating,endearing,but safely trapped within covers - their adventures make another enchanting excursion to Fairacre that will delight Miss Read's devoted followers. Want more MISS READ titles? For similar and other available titles - please search my MODERN FIRSTS2,GENERAL,SIGNED and BIOGRAPHY catalogues. John Strickland Goodall (b.1908) Works as John S. Goodall or J.S. Goodall.Born Heacham,Norfolk,son of a heart specialist.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'. He also studied under Harold Speed and at the Royal Academy Schools (c1930.)Served in the Royal Norfolk Regiment (1939- 46).Concentrated on line drawing in the 1930's,began painting in watercolours while stationed in India at the end of WW2.Since which,his extensive travels (e.g. twice around the world in a cargo boat) provided him with many landscape subjects; he also paints conversation pieces and 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 has evolved an effective method of telling stories by means of half-pages placed between each double-page spread. Since April 2013,again in March 2015,and in this year too,the UK Post Office has altered it's Pricing in Proportion template,altering its prices, weight allowances,dimensions and lowered its qualifying compensation rates too! So,please contact rpaxtonden@blueyonder.co.uk ,for correct shipping/P+p quotes - particularly ALL overseas buyers - BEFORE ordering through the order page!