Down with Skool!; A Guide to School Life for Tiny Pupils and Their Parents
by Willans, Geoffrey (Illustrations by Ronald Searle.)
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
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About This Item
London: Max Parrish 1954. (Hardcover) 106pp. Very good, no dust jacket. Black cloth with gilt illustration on cover. Illustrations. The spine is cocked, the covers are worn and bumped at the edges, the lettering on the spine is faded, and there is a previous owner's name in ink on the front free endpaper. "Contanes: Full lowdown on skools, swots, snekes, cads, prigs bulies headmasters criket foopball, dirty roters funks, parents, masters wizard wheezes, weeds aple pie beds and various other chizzes - in fact the LOT". Illustrations by Ronald Searle. (Humor, Humor).
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Details
- Bookseller
- Burton Lysecki Books, ABAC/ILAB (CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 148924
- Title
- Down with Skool!; A Guide to School Life for Tiny Pupils and Their Parents
- Author
- Willans, Geoffrey (Illustrations by Ronald Searle.)
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Max Parrish
- Place of Publication
- London
- Keywords
- Humor, Humor
- Bookseller catalogs
- Humor;
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Burton Lysecki Books, ABAC/ILAB
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Winnipeg, Manitoba
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- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Cocked
- Refers to a state where the spine of a book is lightly "twisted" in such a way that the front and rear boards of a book do not...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...