Becket's Bones To The Blitz: Seven More Canterbury Tales For Children (SCARCE FIRST EDITION SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR)
by Lyle, Marjorie
- Used
- near fine
- Paperback
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0952938316
- ISBN 13
- 9780952938316
- Seller
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Margate, United Kingdom
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About This Item
Canterbury, Kent: Chough Press, 1998. NrF. First edition. Paperback. SIGNED BY AUTHOR, without dedication on title-page. Signing reads, 'Best wishes/Marjorie Lyle'. 56pp. Illustrated with photographs and line-drawings. Seven historical short stories about Canterbury, Kent including; 'Tom, Dick and Harry', (an adventure at St Thomas' Shrine in 1538); 'Tom Marlowe and the Spanish Armada', (a tale of spies, war and a famous playwright in 1588); 'Joe's Christmas', (a Civil War story about the Canterbury riots of 1647); 'Suzanne's Escape', (how one of the foreign silk-weavers took her chance in 1685); 'Tom Cooper and the Archbishop', (who would help a poor boy become an artist in 1812?); 'Becky, Louise and the Railway', (a tale of rich and poor at the start of the railway age in 1830); 'Henrietta's Firebomb', (a roof-top adventure in Canterbury's blitz of 1942). Light sunning around spine; else a near fine copy of a SCARCE first edition SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR.. Signed by Author. First Edition. Paperback. Near Fine.
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- Bookseller
- Greystone Books (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 15513
- Title
- Becket's Bones To The Blitz: Seven More Canterbury Tales For Children (SCARCE FIRST EDITION SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR)
- Author
- Lyle, Marjorie
- Format/Binding
- Paperback
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0952938316
- ISBN 13
- 9780952938316
- Publisher
- Chough Press
- Place of Publication
- Canterbury, Kent
- Date Published
- 1998
- Keywords
- Signed. Autographed. Childrens. Fiction. Modern First Edition. Historical Fiction. Canterbury, Kent. Canterbury. St Thomas Becket. Tom Marlowe. Tom Cooper. Canterbury's Wartime Blitz. Canterbury, Kent Local History. Local History.
- Bookseller catalogs
- Modern First Edition; Fiction; Children's;
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