A Sensible Life
by Wesley, Mary
Mary Wesley was born near Windsor in 1912. Her education took her to the London School of Economics and during the War she worked in the War Office. She published her first novel (Jumping the Queue) at the age of seventy, and went on to write a further nine novels. Mary Wesley died in 2002.
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A Sensible Life
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Black Swan. Good. 275mm / 200mm. Paperback. 1990. 379 pages. Cover worn. Text tanned<br>She was a thin, lonely chil d with huge eyes and an extensive vocabulary of French foul langu age. Amongst the elegant middle-class British families holidaying in Dinard in 1926--leading their privileged lives of secure rout ine pleasures--Flora was a ten-year-old misfit. Ignored by her se… Read more about this item Item Price
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London: Bantam Press, 1990. [Modern literature] SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (24 x 17cm), pp.364 [4]. SIGNED by the author in black ink to title page. Blue endpapers. Blue publisher's cloth, gilt titles to spine. With the pictorial dust-jacket designed by Susan Moxley priced at £12.95 to front flap. Fine, as-new. The story of a young girl forced by neglectful… Read more about this item Item Price
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A Sensible Life
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London: Black Swan. Very Good. 1992. Reprint; Fifth Printing. Paperback. Light reading and cover creases, light shelf and edge wear, some foxing to endpapers and edges of reading block. ; Nice tight copy, no names inside. Cover artwork by Susan Moxley. ; 384 pages; It was the spring of 1926, and it was a holiday in France… Read more about this item Item Price
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London: Bantam Press. Very Good in Very Good- dust jacket. 1990. First Edition. Hardcover. One tiny open tear to rear cover of DJ. ; Blue cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine, light blue endpapers. Nice tight copy, no names or marks inside. DJ artwork by Susan Moxley. ; 368 pages; It was the spring of 1926,… Read more about this item Item Price
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A Sensible Life
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A Sensible Life
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London: Bantam Press, 1990. Hardcover. Very Good. 8vo.. First Edition Signed by the author (paste in plate). In un price clipped dust jacket. Spotting to top page edge. Novel by the author of The Camomile Lawn. 1990 Item Price
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A SENSIBLE LIFE. [Author SIGNED copy**]
by WESLEY**, MARY:
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UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,author SIGNED,1st edn.FINE-/FINE. No owner inscrptn but author's neat,handwritten black ink signature - without dedication to title page and no price-clip to dw/dj.Bright,crisp,clean,wrap-around white background with glossy,colour pictorial daytime beach scene illustration by Susan Moxley,illustrated front of dw/dj,with capitalised black-lettered author name and capitalised,blue/grey-lettered title+author name to front of dw/dj; very lightly sunned(?) spine/backstrip with capitalised black-lettered author name… Read more about this item Item Price
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London: Bantam Press, 1990. Reprint . Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 1990 first reprint of first edition of the same year. Size octavo, 364 pages. Blue hard cover with gilt titles to the spine, pale blue end-papers, illustrated dust jacket. Book condition near fine, previous owner's signature to half-title, else contents are… Read more about this item Item Price
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by Mary Wesley
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A Sensible Life
by Mary Wesley
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A Sensible Life
by Wesley, Mary
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London: Bantam Press. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1990. Second Printing. Hardcover. Minor shelf wera to unclipped DJ, some foxing to top edge of reading block. ; Second printing. Blue cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine, light blue endpapers. Nice tight copy, no names or marks inside, appears unread. DJ artwork by Susan Moxley.… Read more about this item Item Price
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A SENSIBLE LIFE
by MARY WESLEY
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A sensible life
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by Wesley, Mary
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A Sensible Life
by Wesley, Mary
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Corgi. Very Good+. 1995. Paperback. 055299393X . Very Good Trade Paperback with a tightly binding, clean, unmarked pages. Light spine creasing. "Flora Trevelyan, a ten-year-old misfit, has been abandoned by her self-obsessed parents to her own devices in Dinard. Amongst the privileged, well-meaning English families holidaying there she finds some kindness and the first pangs of… Read more about this item Item Price
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A Sensible Life
by Mary Wesley
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