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SOMEWHERE A BIRD IS SINGING.**
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SOMEWHERE A BIRD IS SINGING.** Hardcover - 1999

by THOMPSON**, E[rnest] V[ictor]:

  • Used
  • Hardcover
  • first

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UK, 8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.NFINE/NFINE.No owner inscrptn,and no price-clip to dw/dj.Bright,clean,glossy laminated,colour pictorial wrap-around artwork by Colin Backhouse,illustrated dw/dj; with negligible shelf-wear and minimal creasing to edges,corners,spine /backstrip - no nicks or tears present.Top+fore-edges lightly aged but clean,minimal grubbing to fore-edge; contents bright,tight and clean.UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn,2- 426pp (paginated). Sally is an orphan living in Plymouth's Barbican,a late 19thC dockside slum,where a vile trade flourishes in young girls,duped and shipped off to the brothels of Europe.Her sister,Ruth,is driven to prostitution in order to support them,until she becomes too ill to work.Now,with her sick sister to take care of in their single room home,Sally finds employment delivering wares for a local shop,meeting fisherman Ethan and,through him,Eva,a captain in the local Salvation Army.Eva has dedicated her life to rescuing the endangered girls and bringing their procurers to justice. When Ruth is brutally murdered,Sally finds the father she has never known,but he is to bring only trouble and unhappiness into her life.When Ethan,his father and brothers are reported missing at sea on a fishing trip,Sally volunteers to help Eva's crusade - with near-disastrous results. The loves and tragedies of a young woman fighting to escape from her environment are vividly captured in 'Somewhere a Bird is Singing.' See also rja1652 & rja32678 (other Author SIGNED copies of this title), rja1214,rja22226,rja27167 (Author SIGNED title),rja32838, rja361610 (Author SIGNED), rja361710 (Author SIGNED),and rja374810 for author's other titles. Please contact rpaxtonden@blueyonder.co.uk ,because of the weight and the value of this item,for correct,insured shipping/P+p quotes - particularly ALL overseas buyers - BEFORE ordering through the order page! ** N.B. ALL buyers please note,stocks' actual shipping/P+p costs are adjusted and any difference is refunded,after order's receipt and before the order's despatch,especially if the item(s) are offered either P+p included/FREE. ** N.B. US customers please be aware: US Standard AIRMAIL postage from UK to USA can now cost more than the price of the book! If speed is not of the essence,then Economy rate is recommended - at approx. anything from a 1/3rd to 1/2 of the standard US AIR quote/rate - sometimes arriving sooner than the 42 days - but not always.
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  • Title SOMEWHERE A BIRD IS SINGING.**
  • Author THOMPSON**, E[rnest] V[ictor]:
  • Illustrator illus by Colin Backhouse.
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.
  • Condition Used - Near FINE.
  • Publisher LONDON.MACMILLAN,1999., London
  • Date 1999
  • Bookseller's Inventory # rja374910
  • ISBN 9780316646123

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