Buy this book on-line BALL**, BRIAN: : The Witch in Our AtticLONDON.BBC,1979. ISBN 0563177276.
UK,slim 8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.FINE/VG.No owner inscrptn,and no price-clip to dw/dj.Glossy laminated,colour pictorial artwork by Jill Murphy illustrated dw/dj; with minimal shelf-wear and creasing to edges - no major nicks or tears present.Slight rubbing and peeling/curling of laminate,with miniscule loss to bottom,front corner and bottom edges; similar to front,top corner and head of spine/backstrip.Described hard but fairly - sounds worse than it actually is! Top edge very lightly dust-soiled and minimally aged,fore-edge brighter and cleaner; contents bright, tight and clean.Clean, publisher's original dark blue cloth boards with bright,crisp,blocked gilt letters to spine/ backstrip and clean plain white endpapers.UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn,7-96pp includes half-title page,b/w line illustrated title page,contents list,5 chapters,profuse b/w line+silhouette illustrations all by Jill Murphy,throughout the book and text.
Gran Dooley had been living in Turnip Cottage all her eighty-one years.Every weekday she would walk to the village to put a small bet on a horse,buy her fish and chips and stout,and walk home again to watch the wrestling on the television.
With her cat Rigsby and her parrot Jeremiah for company,she was quite happy to go on like that for ever.But her greedy
nieces didn't like it.They wanted her to move into an Old People's Home so they could get their hands on her brass bedstead and her corner cupboards and all her other antiques.
Everyone agreed it would be better for her to leave Turnip Cottage.Everyone,that
is,except Gran Dooley! "Abandon Rigsby and Jeremiah! Play bingo and drink tea! Never!" snorted Gran Dooley.But by that time,her furniture was already standing on the front lawn.Only the shattered pieces of the old teapot were left.And there, among the broken china, was a little yellow book.Spells For When Ye Need Them it said.Well,Gran Dooley certainly had need of spells now!
So she trapped her nieces in the cellar and bolted the door,called Rigsby and Jeremiah,and zoomed up into the clouds on her broomstick with her furniture streaming out behind her.Gran Dooley is a delightfully different witch,and the story is full of wit and humour.Jill Murphy's line drawings are the perfect complement to the text.
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