Buy this book on-line GLOAG**, JOHN: : KIND UNCLE BUCKBY.**LONDON.CASSELL,1946. ISBN No ISBN.
UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.VG+/VG.Neat,ink
name of Pat,to top edge ffe which also has a small diagonal clip to top corner of
same.Colour,pictorial illustrated (non-credited) dw/dj with minimal shelf-wear and light creasing to edges, corners minisculely rubbed,head+foot of spine/backstrip chipped with minimal loss - letters (author name) to top unaffected, but partially affecting letter 'C' of CASSELL to foot of same.Spine/backstrip lightly faded and minimally grubbed,rear panel - precis of story - lightly grubbed.
Top edge lightly dust-soiled as usual/
normal with miniscule spotting/foxing; fore-edge slightly cleaner but still slightly aged/toned with miniscule spotting/foxing also,contents bright, tight and clean,virtually unfoxed.(Uncommon in a book of this age and period
of production,1946 - wartime paper-rationing and quality of paper generally used.)Unblemished,bright and clean, publisher's original orange cloth boards with black ink stamped letters to spine/
backstrip and clean,plain white eps with some light residual offset foxing,from dw/dj's inner flaps,to both pastedowns.
That mild,innocent and retiring gentleman
Mr. Lionel Buckby,who lived at Richmond in Surrey,had a talent for getting into water that was about to become hot.
Unfortunately he had a magnetic
attraction for people who were uncongenial
and often not respectable; and in this book we find him coping with a nephew, young,boisterous and enterprising,who is in the transitional stage between a black sheep and a successful man of affairs.Mr. Buckby,who has just inherited an estate in Norfolk with some odd conditions attached to the inheritance,finds himself acting as
host to the remarkable assortment of people his nephew has collected as business partners.The story moves at a brisk pace,and nearly all its turns and twists disclose Mr. Buckby's endearing habit of insisting on a common-sense explanation for the most peculiar happenings and his resolute refusal to attribute sinister motives to anybody.But Mr. Buckby takes his own standards and codes seriously,and he has become almost a symbol,for his standards are those of a tranquil age,and he is still unable to believe that there is anything really wrong with the world and its inhabitants.
Uncommon for a book to survive in such a good state,particularly with a dw/dj,
bearing in mind wartime production,and paper-rationing.A solid,sound copy.
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