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Peepal Tree Press Ltd, 2011-05-01. Paperback. New.

Paperback. Very Good.

Peepal Tree Pr Ltd, 2011. Paperback. New. 108 pages. 8.00x5.30x0.40 inches.

Peepal Tree Press Ltd, 2011-05-01. Paperback. Used:Good.

Peepal Tree Press, Limited , pp. 108 . Papeback. New.

Peepal Tree Press Ltd, 2011-05-01. Paperback. Like New.

Paperback / softback. New.

Puffin, Australia, 1985. Reprint. Paperback. Very Good. Paperback. 126 pages. *** PUBLISHING DETAILS: Puffin, Australia, 1985. Reprint. *** CONDITION: This book is in very good condition. Minor edgewear to covers. Lightly tanned pages. This Book appears to be unread. *** Quantity Available: 1. Category: Children & Young Adult; Teenage Fiction; ISBN: 0140311653. ISBN/EAN: 9780140311655. Inventory No: 11060804.. 9780140311655

Peepal Tree Press Ltd, 2011-05-01. Paperback. Used: Good.

Oxford University Press, 1970. Hardcover. Good/Good. 1970. Reprint. 123 pages. This is an ex-Library book. Dust jacket covered in removable plastic wrapper over red cloth. Library copy, with minimal inserts. Black and white illustrations throughout. Clean pages with noticeable foxing throughout. Tightly bound with mild thumb-marking throughout. Notable scuffing to front pastedown and endpaper. Boards are assumed in good condition as are covered with taped on jacket. Unclipped jacket has light edgewear with tears and creasing. Notable rubbing and marking all over.

Oxford University Press, 1965. Hardcover. Good/Good. 1965. First Edition. 123 pages. Illustrated dust jacket over orange cloth boards. Gilt lettering. Clean pages with light tanning and mild foxing throughout. Pencil markings to front free endpaper. Thumb-marking present. Binding remains firm. Boards have mild edge-wear with slight rubbing to surfaces and bumping to corners. Gilt lettering is bright and clear. Unclipped jacket. Panels and spine have light edgewear with tears and creases. Minor wear marks to spine and panels. Jacket is in removable plastic cover.

Oxford University Press. Hardcover w/ DJ. Very Good. Prompt shipment, with tracking. we ship in CLEAN SECURE NEW boxes : Very good hardcover in Very good dust jacket. First Edition. Name in ink on front free endpaper. 8vo. 123pp.

London: Oxford University Press,, 1964-65-66-67. First editions, first impressions, of the author's first four children's books. Salkey (1928-1995) was a lynchpin figure in the first wave of post-war Caribbean writers who settled and worked in London. Hurricane, the first in the disaster quartet, was awarded a Deutscher Kinderbuchpreis. The books "are neither guides for dealing with disaster... nor are they meant in any way as wilderness survival stories. Instead, they work as a unit to comment on Jamaicans' varied response to disaster, and how some will help the young country (Jamaica achieved independence in 1962) and the Jamaican immigrants to Britain, and some will not" (Sands-O'Connor, p. 144). Salkey moved to Britain in 1952 to pursue a literary career. "Quietly persuasive, with a gift for friendship and an encyclopaedic memory for people, Salkey with his wife Pat made their Bayswater flat a meeting point for immigrant authors and artists in London" (ODNB). As the main presenter and… Read More