William The Rebel
by Crompton,Richmal
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good /No Jacket
- Seller
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Ribble Valley, Lancashire, United Kingdom
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About This Item
London: George Newnes Limited. This is a Very Good Copy of this Book in Publisher's red cloth with black title lettering to spine and upper cover.No Dust-jacket.Complete with half title page,frontispiece and there are NO cracked hinges or internal doodlings etc.Light spotting to the endpapers and fore-edge of the book.This copy has NO previous inscriptions present.A decent addition to any Just William collection.Illustrated in black and white by Thomas Henry.The book has a firm binding with no hinge weakness and there is no leaning to spine.Though the colour tone to spine has sunned a lighter red.The Author attended schools in Lancashire and Derbyshire and later won a scholarship to study at the Royal Holloway College in London, receiving a BA Honours degree in Classics.She also took part in the Women's Suffrage movement at the time.At age 27 she moved to Bromley High School in south east London where she began her writing in earnest.She died in 1969 at her home in Farnborough in Kent.8vo 256pp First Cheap Edition . Very Good. Hardcover. First Cheap Edition. 1933.
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- Bookseller
- Richard Thornton Books
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 59703
- Title
- William The Rebel
- Author
- Crompton,Richmal
- Illustrator
- Thomas Henry
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Cheap Edition
- Publisher
- George Newnes Limited
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1933
- Size
- 8vo - over 5¾" - 7&f
- Keywords
- RICHMAL CROMPTON JUST WILLIAM
- Bookseller catalogs
- CHILDREN'S;
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About the Seller
Richard Thornton Books
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Ribble Valley, Lancashire
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