London: Book Club Associates. Very Good in Very Good- dust jacket. 1996. Reprint; First Printing. Hardcover. Book Club Edition . Light shelf wear to unclipped DJ, light foxing to endpapers and edges of reading block. ; Book club edition, BCA CN9543, first printing 1996. Blue cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine. Nice tight copy, no names inside. DJ artwork by Kevin Tweddell. ; 288 pages; Alice O'Connor's poor family lives in Benledi Street, the heart of Liverpool's toughest slum. Her bullying father drinks away what little he earns, whilst Nelly, her careworn mother, works when she can and begs when she can't. Since she was five young Alice has also begged in the streets around the docks but she has managed to hold on to the hope of something better, a stubborn optimism that keeps her head held high even in her lowest moments. For Alice knows she has a gift that allows her to rise above the fate that made her life so bitterly hard. Alice O'Connor can sing like an angel... .

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Seller: Books in Bulgaria (BG)
Seller's Inventory #: 30422
Title: Liverpool Songbird
Author: Andrews, Lyn
Format/Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Used - Very Good in Very Good- dust jacket
Edition: Reprint; First Printing
Publisher: Book Club Associates
Place of Publication: London
Date Published: 1996
Keywords: Book Club Edition
Bookseller catalogs: Fireside Reads;

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Book Club Edition: A generic term denoting a book which was produced or distributed by one of any number of book club organizations. Usually the...
Poor: A book with significant wear and faults. A poor condition book is still a reading copy with the full text still readable. Any...
Cloth: "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
Shelf Wear: Shelf wear (shelfwear) describes damage caused over time to a book by placing and removing a book from a shelf. This damage is...
Gilt: The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
Tight: Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
Spine: The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
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...
Jacket: Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...