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Tales from a Village School.**

by READ**, MISS [pen name DORA JANE SAINT.**]:

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Near FINE./FINE.
ISBN 10
0718100700
ISBN 13
9780718100704
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UK,slim,small 8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.[First impression, September 1994.A 2nd impression followed in November,1994.] NFINE/FINE.No owner inscrptn and no price-clip to dw/dj.Bright, crisp,clean,matt,colour pictorial artwork by Kate Dicker, illustrated dw/dj with dark green+red lettering to front,white spine with green,brown+black letters,rear panel with coloured oval vignette illustration and black lettered critics' reviews to pale cream background.Negligible shelf-wear,bumping, creasing to edges and corners - no nicks, tears or splits present - miniscule bumping with reciprocal creases to head+ foot of spine/backstrip.Bottom edges with black inked partial DAMAGED stamp - but NO printing,binding faults evident! Top edge with thumb? smudge at headband area otherwise bright and clean as are the fore-edges; contents bright,tight,clean, solid and sound - virtually 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 dark green cloth boards with bright,crisp,blocked gilt letters to spine/backstrip,green+white line illustrated endpapers.UK, slim,small 8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn,viii-ixpp+2- 166pp [paginated] includes author's foreword,40 short stories, profuse part-page b/w line illustrations by Kate Dicker, interspersed throughout the text and the book.
These stories were first published in 'The Times Educational Supplement','Punch' and other publications forty years ago and are now published in book form for the first time,with a new foreword and line drawings by Kate Dicker.Fresh and beautifully written,they led to Miss Read writing her bestselling series about the villages of Faircare and Thrush Green,and reveal all the qualities that were to make her the much-loved writer that she is today.
Want more MISS READ titles? For similar and other available titles - please search my MODERN FIRSTS2,GENERAL, SIGNED and BIOGRAPHY catalogues.
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Bookseller
R. J. A. PAXTON-DENNY. GB (GB)
Bookseller's Inventory #
rja939621
Title
Tales from a Village School.**
Author
READ**, MISS [pen name DORA JANE SAINT.**]:
Illustrator
illus by Kate Dicker.**
Book Condition
Used - Near FINE.
Jacket Condition
FINE.
Quantity Available
1
Edition
UK,slim,small 8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.
Binding
Hardcover
ISBN 10
0718100700
ISBN 13
9780718100704
Publisher
LONDON.MICHAEL JOSEPH,1994.
Place of Publication
London
This edition first published
1994
Keywords
q52.MODERN FIRSTS2.UK,slim,small 8vo HB+ dw/dj,1st edn.ISBN 0718100700.Illus by Kate Dicker.Anthology_collection short stories_Miss Read.Cotswold village life_people_custom_school.Fairacre_Thrush Green.Books new,used,signed,rare.
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