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Smith
by Garfield, Leon
- Used
- Paperback
- Condition
- VG
- ISBN 10
- 0140303499
- ISBN 13
- 9780140303490
- Seller
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Castlemaine, Victoria, Australia
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About This Item
Harmondsworth: Puffin Books, 1981 12mo. original printed paper wraps (ex-school library with three small RSMs, old price to first page, a trifle rubbed, slight toned and marked, else clean & bright throughout); pp. 174, [2 (pubs. advt., last blank), with illustrations. A very good copy.. Reprint. Soft Cover. VG. Illus. by Antony Maitland.
Synopsis
Leon Garfield (1921–1996) was born and raised in the seaside town of Brighton, England. his father owned a series of businesses, and the family’s fortunes fluctuated wildly. Garfield enrolled in art school, left to work in an office, and in 1940 was drafted into the army, serving in the medical corps. After the war, he returned to London and worked as a biochemical technician. in 1948 he married Vivian Alcock, an artist who would later become a successful writer of children’s books, and it was she who encouraged him to write his first novel, Jack Holborn , which was published in 1964. in all, Garfield would write some fifty books, including a continuation of Charles Dickens’s Mystery of Edwin Drood and retellings of biblical and Shakespearian stories. Among his best-known books are Devil-in-the-Fog (1966, winner of The Guardian Children’s Fiction Prize), The God Beneath the Sea (1970, winner of the Carnegie medal), Bostock and Harris; or, The Night of the Comet (1979; forthcoming from The New York Review Children’s Collection), and John Diamond (1980, winner of the Whitbread Award).
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Details
- Bookseller
- Mount of Alex - Arapiles Mountain Books
(AU)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 030167
- Title
- Smith
- Author
- Garfield, Leon
- Illustrator
- Antony Maitland
- Format/Binding
- Paperback
- Book Condition
- Used - VG
- Edition
- Reprint
- ISBN 10
- 0140303499
- ISBN 13
- 9780140303490
- Publisher
- Puffin Books
- Place of Publication
- Harmondsworth
- Date Published
- 1981
- Keywords
- Leon Garfield Smith Childrens Literature
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Mount of Alex - Arapiles Mountain Books
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Castlemaine, Victoria
About Mount of Alex - Arapiles Mountain Books
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Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- VG
- Very Good condition can describe a used book that does show some small signs of wear - but no tears - on either binding or...
- 12mo
- A duodecimo is a book approximately 7 by 4.5 inches in size, or similar in size to a contemporary mass market paperback. Also...
- Reprint
- Any printing of a book which follows the original edition. By definition, a reprint is not a first edition.
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