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BLEWCOAT BOY.

BLEWCOAT BOY.

BLEWCOAT BOY.
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BLEWCOAT BOY.

by GARFIELD**, LEON:

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ISBN 10
0575043946
ISBN 13
9780575043947
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UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.FINE/FINE.No owner inscrptn,and no price-clip to dw/dj.Very light creasing - shelf-wear(?) to top edge of dw/dj.Pictorial colour decorated dw/dj by Elizabeth Finn,with decorated blue eps.Tan cloth boards with gilt letters to spine/ backstrip.UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn,112pp includes b/w line illus chapter head-pieces. In a cave on the wild side of St Jame's Park live two ragged children,Young Nick (to tell him apart from Old Nick) and his nine-year-old sister Jubilee.Once,back in Ireland,they had a father but now they are alone - and Young Nick knows that it is his responsibility to find a husband for Jubilee.And there lies the problem - for Jubilee can neither cook nor sew,read or write.Who'd wed such an article? Young Nick decides that he and Jubilee must enrol at Westminster's famous Blewcoat School.To do so,they need a dad,and who should they find but Mr Owen,the light-fingered Welshman who'd nick the shine right out of your eye as soon as your back was turned.Victorian London comes to life in this sparkling comedy-adventure from the masterly pen of Leon Garfield.Published in association with the National Trust,Blewcoat Boy is one of a series of Acorn Modern Classics: outstanding fiction from top children's authors,each inspired by a different National Trust property. Please contact rpaxtonden@blueyonder.co.uk ,for correct shipping/P+p quotes - particularly ALL overseas buyers - BEFORE ordering through the order page!

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Bookseller
R. J. A. PAXTON-DENNY. GB (GB)
Bookseller's Inventory #
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Title
BLEWCOAT BOY.
Author
GARFIELD**, LEON:
Book Condition
Used - FINE.
Jacket Condition
FINE.
Quantity Available
1
Edition
UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.
Binding
Hardcover
ISBN 10
0575043946
ISBN 13
9780575043947
Publisher
LONDON.GOLLANCZ,1988.
Place of Publication
London
This edition first published
June 1988
Keywords
q52.CHILDRENS/ILLUSTRATED.UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.ISBN 0575043946.CHILDRENS ILLUSTRATED FICTION.CHILDREN'S FICTION.MODERN FIRSTS.MODERN FICTION.BOOKS BY+OF LEON GARFIELD.VICTORIAN LONDON.JOHN DIAMOND.THE GOD BENEATH THE SEA.Books new,used,signed,rare.
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