The Truants by J.C. Badcock, with a Foreword by Richard Church - 1954

New York: Pantheon Books, 1953. Green cloth binding with brown cloth spine has just very minor rubbing along bottom edge front cover. Else clean, square and tight. DJ has some small chips, closed tears. 124 pages. Story of a year in the life of a village schoolboy and his dominant elder brother - both are poachers and bird trappers, but both have a certain devotion to their victims. Through the eyes of these boys we see the change of seasons, the habits of birds and animals.. Illus. by Wetherbee, Margaret. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 1st. Hardcover. Near Fine/Good.

Pantheon, 1953. Hardcover. Very Good.

NY: Pantheon Books, 1953. 1st US. Very Good/None. Margaret Wetherbee. Hardcover. Green cloth binding with brown cloth spine. Illustrated with b&w woodcut drawings by Margaret Wetherbee. 124 pages. Story of a year in the life of a village schoolboy and his dominant elder brother - both are poachers and bird trappers, but both have a certain devotion to their victims. Through the eyes of these boys we see the change of seasons, the habits of birds and animals. Clean copy. No dust jacket. Record # 501316

Hutchinson, 1953. Hardcover. Good/Good. 1953. No Edition Stated. 124 pages. Grey dust jacket with brown lettering over red cloth. B&W illustrations throughout. Clean pages. Minimal foxing and tanning to endpapers and page edges. Previous owner's inscription to front endpaper. Mild wear and bumping to spine, board edges and corners, with scuffing and soiling to boards. Minor sunning to spine. Clipped dust jacket. Mild wear, tear and chipping to edges and corners. Notable soiling to DJ.

New York: Pantheon. Hardcover. 1953. 1st Edition. Thin 8vo 124pp . Fine in Very Good DJ. B&W Illustrations This book covers a year in the life of a British schoolboy and his dominant elder brother. Both are young poachers and bird trappers with an intimate knowledge of the fields and woodlands .

London: The Country Book Club, 1954 Copy in green cloth on boards with gilt title on spine. Spine is sunned. Small booksellers label on front paste down. Clean text and b/w illustrations. Free of inscriptions.

Pantheon Books, 1953. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine. Octavo. Margaret Wetherbee. A superb copy. Out of print.

London England: Hutchinson, 1953. Hardback.Foxing to end inside covers. Label to inside cover. Sunned spine to cloth. Red cloth with green lettering. With a Foreword by Richard Church. The book is a remarkable picture of two boys, just as it is a close portrayal of an ordinary stretch of our English countryside, as seen through the magnifying eye of a child, for whom everything is new, everthing memorable. The reader will, by this proxy, come again with 'the innocent eye', near enough to see, to touch, to smell and to hear with these two country lads, to share in their poaching escapades, and to be rewarded with their rustic knowledge. Illustrations.124 pp. (We carry a wide selection of titles in The Arts, Theology, History, Politics, Social and Physical Sciences. academic and scholarly books and Modern First Editions ,and all types of Academic Literature.). First Edition. Cloth. Very Good/No Jacket. Illus. by Margaret Wetherbee. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Hardback.

London: Hutchinson, 1953. With a Foreword by Richard Church and illustrations by Margaret Wetherbee. Pp. 124, title page vignette, head & tailpiece illustrations; edges of boards a trifle rubbed; price-clipped dust wrapper, lightly soiled and worn, edges chipped and split; free endpapers faintly offset and a trifle foxed; Hutchinson , London, 1953. First edition.

London: The Country Book Club, 1954 The English countryside seen through the magnifying eye of a child. See, touch, smell and hear with two country lads, share trheir poaching escapades and be rewarded by their rustic knowledge. 124 pages with delightful line illustrations. Green cloth faded to spine and extremities. Foredge foxed.