A Grotto for Miss Maynier by F.C. Ball

Penguin Books, Middlesex, England, 1965. Reprint. Softcover. Good Condition. Illustrated card cover with black and orange coloured titles to the front panel and black and white coloured titles to the backstrip. Creasing to the book corners and rubbing to the book edges and book panels. Browning to the textblock edges and internal pages. Previous bookseller's sticker to the lower edge of the rear panel. A young boy answers an advertisement for a part-time gardener. He finds himself building a grotto, be a model for the feet and head of Christ, nurse an old lady in her dementia and be the only mourner at her grave. Size: 12mo (standard paperback). Please refer to accompanying picture (s). Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 500 grams. Category: Literature & Literary; Inventory No: 0113135. .

Penguin Books, 1970. paperback. Bueno. Middlesex 1970. Penguin Books. 144 pp. 18x11. Rústica. Sello. Cantos algo rozados. Texto en inglés.

Hutchinson of London, 1965. Hardcover. Good. 1965. First Edition. 143 pages. No dust jacket. Signed by the author. Green cloth covered boards. Signed with dedication from the author on title page. Pages with some foxing and tanning, particularly to endpapers and textblock edges. Binding remains firm. Boards have moderate shelf wear with mild bumping and fraying to corners and crushing and fraying to spine ends. All surfaces tanned, particularly spine. Gilt lettering to spine is slightly dulled.