London: The Companion Book Club. Good+ with no dust jacket. 1956. Reprint; First Printing. Hardcover. Book Club Edition . Missing DJ, corners lightly bumped, small split to top of spine, some foxing to endpapers and edges of reading block. ; Book club edition, March 1956. Blue cloth boards with gilt lettering to red spine panel, top edge red. Nice tight copy, no names inside. ; 416 pages; How does a rich man who has worked hard all his life for his wealth, deal with his lazy layabout children? Set in a Yorkshire mill town, Pilling the bookmaker seizes his chance when a near financial disaster allows him to convince everyone that he has fallen on hard times, to find out if his son and daughter have any Yorkshire backbone in them or not! .

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Seller: Books in Bulgaria (BG)
Seller's Inventory #: 28582
Title: Pilling Always Pays
Author: Armstrong, Thomas
Format/Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Used - Good+ with no dust jacket
Edition: Reprint; First Printing
Publisher: The Companion Book Club
Place of Publication: London
Date Published: 1956
Keywords: Book Club Edition
Bookseller catalogs: Fireside Reads;

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