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Scully
by Alan Bleasdale
- Used
- Fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fine/Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0091219000
- ISBN 13
- 9780091219000
- Seller
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Caterham, Surrey, United Kingdom
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About This Item
Published by Hutchinson & Co., London; 1975. 8vo. 215pp. First edition, first impression. Condition; Fine/Fine
Bound in original red cloth boards with title in white to the spine. The binding is square and tight and in excellent condition, free from marks or blemishes, with just a touch of bumping and darkening to the edges. Inside, the pages are clean and bright with a little light toning.
This smart book is housed in its original, first issue, dust jacket. It is vibrant and bright with no marks or damage and just a slight hint of bumping to the spine ends.
In all, this is a very smart, collectible, example of Alan Bleasdale's first novel, based upon the stories he originally wrote to entertain his secondary students in the school where he taught for four years. It was later broadcast on BBC Radio Merseyside and was the basis for stage and television plays, and a seven part tv series. 'This novel shows just what it's like to live between the back streets and the new estates in Liverpool - to grow up a boot boy, to fight authority, to kick against the pricks. And, through its free-wheeling, anarchic humour, it shows vividly why Scully is the way he is - sharp, talented, confused, spasmodically vicious; knowing all the dodges, yet unaware of what makes them necessary. In Scully, Alan Bleasdale has created one of the most engaging yet disturbing characters in contemporary fiction.'
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Details
- Bookseller
- Everlasting Editions
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1046
- Title
- Scully
- Author
- Alan Bleasdale
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First edition, first impression
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0091219000
- ISBN 13
- 9780091219000
- Publisher
- Hutchinson & Co.
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1975
- Pages
- 215pp.
- Size
- 8vo
- Keywords
- Scully, alan, bleasdale, liverpool, teenager, teacher, theatre, tv, television, radio, play, first, 1st, edition, gift, fiction, book
- Bookseller catalogs
- Modern First Editions;
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About the Seller
Everlasting Editions
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Caterham, Surrey
About Everlasting Editions
Everlasting Editions sells beautiful rare, collectible and signed first edition books to treasure for a lifetime. We offer a wide range of books rom a variety of genres, but specialising in Modern First Editions and Children's First Editions. Whether you simply collect for the joy of owning beautiful rare books or whether you believe, as we do, that they are a worthwhile investment in a time of economic difficulties, we are confident that we have the right book for you.
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