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Buy this book on-line READ**, MISS [pen name DORA JANE SAINT.**]: : Tales from a Village School.**LONDON.MICHAEL JOSEPH,1994. ISBN 0718100700.
UK,slim,small 8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.[First impression, September 1994.A 2nd impression followed in November,1994.] FINE/FINE.No owner inscrptn and no price- clip to dw/dj.Bright,crisp,clean,matt, colour pictorial artwork by Kate Dicker, illustrated dw/dj with dark green+red lettering to front,white spine with green,brown+black letters,rear panel with coloured oval vignette illustration and black lettered critics' reviews to pale cream background.Negligible shelf-wear, bumping,creasing to edges and corners - no nicks, tears or splits present - miniscule bumping with reciprocal creases to head of spine/backstrip.Top+fore-edges bright and clean; contents bright,tight,clean,solid and sound - virtually pristine - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners,appears unread,apart from my own collation.Bright,crisp,clean,sharp-cornered,publisher's original plain dark green cloth boards with bright,crisp, blocked gilt letters to spine/backstrip, green+white line illustrated endpapers.UK, slim,small 8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn,viii-ixpp +2-166pp [paginated] includes author's foreword,40 short stories,profuse part- page b/w line illustrations by Kate Dicker,interspersed throughout the text and the book.
These stories were first published in 'The Times Educational Supplement','Punch' and other publications forty years ago and are now published in book form for the first time,with a new foreword and line drawings by Kate Dicker.Fresh and beautifully written,they led to Miss Read writing her bestselling series about the villages of Faircare and Thrush Green,and reveal all the qualities that were to make her the much-loved writer that she is today.
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