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Book Description Condition: Very Good. 1710252641. 3/12/2024 2:10:41 PM. Seller Inventory # U9780099575306
Book Description Paperback. Condition: Very Good. 122 pages. Light wear to covers' corners - silver-coloured spine. Lightly yellowed page-edges o/w pages very clean and tidy. Seller Inventory # 071168
Book Description Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. London. Arrow/Arena Books Ltd. 1988. First printing in this paperback edition. Soft Covers. Standard size. 122 pp. Illustration to front cover by Mark O'Neil. Silver spine. Very little wear although edges of text block are toned due to paper and age. Condition is very good plus/near fine. Reminiscent of Peter Carey's 'Oscar and Lucinda', this is the story of an imaginative child raised in the intolerant atmosphere of New Zealand's Christian Brethren. Elsdon Bird is an affectionate and imaginative child raised in a family steeped in the religious intolerance of the Christian Brethren sect. Driven more and more into himself and inspired by The Jungle Book, Elsdon builds a fragile internal world maintained by conversations with cows and sheep. Seller Inventory # 2330MAR009