Down with Skool!: A Guide to School Life for Tiny Pupils and their Parents
by Willans, Geoffrey (text); Ronald Searle (illus.)
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- VG+/VG-
- Seller
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Kutztown, Pennsylvania, United States
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About This Item
New York: The Vanguard Press, 1954. Book. VG+. Hardcover. First American Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Black cloth-effect paper covered boards, lettered and with front cover illus. in silver. Mild shelf wear, rubbed corners and spine extremities, slight binding lean. Text block edges slightly dulled by age, with slight foxing along top edge. Firm binding, clean interior beyond former owner's signature and inscription "Thou shalt not steal!" along top edge of front flyleaf; rear pastedown a bit age-toned. 106 pp., illus. Yellow illus. dust jacket is mildly soiled on both covers, with tanned spine panel, several short closed edge tears and a few small chips, mild loss at head of spine, both flaps fully intact, now in archival mylar. First American edition, following the British (1953). Scarce..
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- Bookseller
- Saucony Book Shop
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 034045
- Title
- Down with Skool!: A Guide to School Life for Tiny Pupils and their Parents
- Author
- Willans, Geoffrey (text); Ronald Searle (illus.)
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - VG+
- Jacket Condition
- VG-
- Edition
- First American Edition
- Publisher
- The Vanguard Press
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1954
- Bookseller catalogs
- Humor; England, Scotland, & Ireland;
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
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Saucony Book Shop
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About the Seller
Saucony Book Shop
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Kutztown, Pennsylvania
About Saucony Book Shop
The Saucony Book Shop, located in the heart of scenic rural Berks County, epicenter of Pennsylvania German folk culture (our shop specialty), offers a full range of gently used, rare, and antiquarian books, with many volumes of scholarly merit and an unabashed emphasis on the quaint, the curious, and the utterly obscure. We make no attempt to be a general-service book shop. Our inventory is highly selective, individually chosen from among the hundreds of thousands of books to which we have access annually at auctions, library and estate sales, and through individual scouts and vendors. We do not handle material that does not meet our expectations in terms of condition or interest to our specialized, idiosyncratic customers. Despite maintaining a browsing inventory of more than 15,000 volumes, we have minimized our carbon footprint by maintaining our entire operation in a cozy ca. 1890 barn and lean-to adjacent to an historic creamery in rural Maxatawny Township. Our shop is available for browsing by appointment and occasionally, in temperate weather, by chance, so email or call ahead to peruse the eclectic selection gracing our shelves, or ask our ferociously over-read staff for recommendations. Selling antiquarian books of merit since 1981. Full search and appraisal services; always keenly interested in purchasing quality used books, whether by the piece or by the bushel. Thanks for reading about us! Go placidly amid the noise and haste, and remember what peace there may be in silence.
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- Text Block
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- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
- Shelf Wear
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