HARDBACK SHIPPED FROM THE UK* Edition: 1st. UK.* Impression: 1st.* Date of Publication: 1981* Publisher: Michael Joseph.* Binding and cover condition: Olive green cloth, gilt title to spine. No bumps or rubs, light shelf wear to bottom edge and to head ~ tail of spine. VG* Jacket condition: Colour illustrated dust wrapper in clear film protective jacket. NOT PRICE CLIPPED, showing shelf price of £6.95 net. Slight shelf wear to top & bottom edge and to head & tail of spine with creases and minor losses. GD+* Contents condition: PRIVATE COPY NOT EX-LIBRARY. Coloured illustration (green) to end papers with minor speckling. Clean, crisp, tight and bright with no reading wear, no marks to text, no other visible faults. VG* Illustrations: Several b/w line drawings within text.* Pages: 246 pp. text. no extras at rear.* Description: As the early sunshine begins to warm Thrush Green, it looks as if it is going to be a golden summer. But in this apparently sleepy village, there is a flurry of activity. As Molly Curdle prepares for her new baby, rumour has it that a retirement is planned, and the village school teacher is about to make an important decision. And as Thrush Green's vicar sits down to write his sermon, he has no idea of the potential disaster which is unfolding... All is not as idyllic as it seems for the unsuspecting villagers, for change is never far away.* A near VG copy of the 1st./1st. with minor faults to dust jacket reducing it to GD+*

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Bookseller: Cocksparrow Books (GB)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 1415
Title: Gossip from Thrush Green
Author: 9780718120467
Format/Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Used - VG/VG/GD+
Quantity Available: 1
Edition: First Edition
ISBN 10: 0718120469
ISBN 13: 9780718120467
Publisher: Michael Joseph
Place of Publication: London Uk 256
This edition first published: 1981

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Bumps: Indicates that the affected part of the book has been impacted in such a way so as to cause a flattening, indention, or light...
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