BATTLES AT THRUSH GREEN (Signed copy)

READ, Miss [Dora Saint 1913 2012] (Illustrated by John Goodall)

ISBN 10: 0718113942 / ISBN 13: 9780718113940

Edité par London Michael Joseph 1975, 1975

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SIGNED COPY. FIRST EDITION. 8vo., red clothbound hardback gilt, with colour pictorial dust jacket; 239pp, with b/w illustrations throughout plus illustrated endpapers. Author's ink signature to reverse of frontis. Light age-toning to edges and pages, dust jacket a little soiled and edgeworn, a few faint handling marks, priceclipped. Overall a Very Good copy in a Good+ dust jacket. (Shelf 65) ISBN: 0718113942 PLEASE NOTE: Buyer is responsible for any additional duties, taxes, or fees required by recipient's country.** Pictures available upon request.** Visit our homepage for our shop opening hours. Over 20,000 books in stock - come and browse. PayPal, credit and most debit cards welcome. Books posted worldwide. For any queries please contact us direct.

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Détails bibliographiques

• Titre: BATTLES AT THRUSH GREEN (Signed copy)
• Éditeur: London Michael Joseph 1975
• Date de parution: 1975
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 0718113942
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9780718113940
• Reliure: Couverture rigide
• Édition: Edition originale
• État de la jaquette: Jaquette
• Signé: Signé par l'auteur

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Synopsis

All was calm in Thrush Green until the Vicar suggested that the churchyard should be tidied. Raze the tombs of their forefathers? The village was outraged.

Biographie de l'auteur

Miss Read, or in real life Dora Saint, was a teacher by profession who started writing after the second world war, beginning with light essays written for Punch and other journals. She then wrote on educational and country matters and worked as a scriptwriter for the BBC. Miss Read was married to a schoolmaster for sixty-four years until his death in 2004, and they had one daughter.

Miss Read was awarded an MBE in the 1998 New Year Honours list for her services to literature, She was the author of many immensely popular books, including two autobiographical works, but it was her novels of English rural life for which she was best known. The first of these Village School, was published in 1955, and Miss Read continued to write about the fictional villages of Fairacre and Thrush Green for many years. She lived near Newbury in Berkshire until her death in 2012.