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hardcover. Condition: Good. Hutchinson/Universal club edition1949 on red cloth.
Hardcover. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. undated. boards are worn and knocked. thorough foxing and markings. binding is intact. fair copy.[SK]. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.
Hardcover. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. Repaired spine.Boards are worn and marked.A few inscriptions.Minor stain marks.Excellent binding.No date.c.1948.[R.K]. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.
Published by Persephone Books Ltd, 2001
ISBN 10: 1903155134ISBN 13: 9781903155134
Seller: Harry Righton, Evesham, United Kingdom
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Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 2006 rpt. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
Published by Hutchinson, London, 1949
Seller: Book Express (NZ), Wellington, New Zealand
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Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No dj. Universal book club. 272 pages. No dj. Front cover scratched. Name on ffep.
Published by Persephone Books Ltd, London, 2001
ISBN 10: 1903155134ISBN 13: 9781903155134
Seller: Amazing Book Company, Liphook, United Kingdom
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Trade Paperback. Condition: Mint. First Thus. This copy is in mint, seemingly unread condition in a mint unclipped dustwrapper. Persephone Books reprints neglected fiction and non-fiction by mid-twentieth century writers. These books are intelligent, thought-provoking and beautifully written. Their list includes novels, short stories, diaries, memoirs and cookery books; each has an elegant uniform grey jacket and colourful endpapers with a matching bookmark, Each title has a new preface by writers such as Jilly Cooper, David Kynaston and Elaine Showalter. Richmal Crompton created William, the pugnacious anti-hero of thirty books selling over 8 million copies in her lifetime; but their author once hinted that a 'Frankenstein monster' had ambushed her forty novels for adults. This 1948 novel about the life of two families during the inter-war years. Instead of seeing William at odds with adults, we are shown the matriarchs around whom their families spin; but whether they direct their children gently or forcefully, in the end they have to accept them as they are.We see that families can both entrap and sustain; that parents and children must respect each other; and that happiness necessitates jumping or being pushed off the family roundabout. Ref NNN 7.
Published by Persephone Books Ltd, London, 2006
ISBN 10: 1903155134ISBN 13: 9781903155134
Seller: Amazing Book Company, Liphook, United Kingdom
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Soft cover. Condition: New. Reprint. This new copy is bound in illustrated card covers as issued. The contents are bright, tight, white and square. International postal rates are calculated on a book weighing 1 Kilo, in cases where the book weighs more than 1 Kilo increased postal rates will be quoted, where the book weighs less then postage will be reduced accordingly. Richmal Crompton is famous for being the author of the William books, which sold over 8 million copies in her lifetime, but she also wrote forty novels for adults, the best of which is, according to many, Family Roundabout, a 1948 book about the life of two families during the inter-war years. Family Roundabout centres on two matriarchs, around whom their two families spin. One is dreamy, laissez-faire, kindly and bookish; the other is controlling, managerial, efficient and energetic. 'Mrs Fowler's hands-off approach is on the face of it more appealing that Mrs Willoughby's repressive autocracy,' writes Juliet Aykroyd in her Preface, 'but in the end we are left pondering, What is a successful mother, or, come to think of it, a successful child?' The two women try hard, but inevitably the family roundabout goes round and round, the riders go up and down, and both must accept their children as they really are, rather than as they would like them to be; for all their efforts, whether misplaced or well-meaning, as it used to say above nursery doors - 'tout laisse, tout casse, tout passe'. This is quite a sardonic book, certainly it is not anodyne, and the reader is led to conclude that neither Mrs Fowler nor Mrs Willoughby have spun the roundabout quite as they should. NNN 7.
Published by imusti, 2001
ISBN 10: 1903155134ISBN 13: 9781903155134
Seller: Front Cover Books, Denver, CO, U.S.A.
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Condition: new.
Published by Persephone Books, 2001
ISBN 10: 1903155134ISBN 13: 9781903155134
Seller: GoldenDragon, Houston, TX, U.S.A.
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Paperback. Condition: new. Buy for Great customer experience.
Published by Hutchinson no date (Inscription 1948 on first page), 1948
Seller: Jenny Hurst, Folkestone, United Kingdom
HB/noDW RED BOARDS,boards slightly marked contents good inscription on first page,previous owners name and date.
Published by Hutchinson, London, 1949
Seller: Black Stump Books And Collectables, Skipton, VIC, Australia
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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Reprint. Red binding, black title. 272 pages. First and last pages foxed. A tight, straight, clean copy. Scan available.
Published by Persephone Books Ltd, 2001
ISBN 10: 1903155134ISBN 13: 9781903155134
Seller: Pieuler Store, Suffolk, United Kingdom
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Condition: good. 100% Customer Satisfaction Guaranteed ! The book shows some signs of wear from use but is a good readable copy. Cover in excellent condition. Binding tight. Pages in great shape, no tears. Not contain access codes, cd, DVD.
Published by Peresphone Books, London, 2001
ISBN 10: 1903155134ISBN 13: 9781903155134
Seller: Barnaby, Oxford, United Kingdom
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Softcover. Condition: Good. Lightly worn covers, but otherwise in good condition. All pages free from notes or highlighting. Spine intact, bindings firm. Size: 19.2 x 14 x 3.1 cm. 361 pp. Shipped Weight: Under 500 grams. Category: Fiction; Mothers; Social classes; Widows; England; Families; ISBN: 1903155134. ISBN/EAN: 9781903155134. Add. Inventory No: 231018HAN015025.
Published by Persephone Books, 2001
ISBN 10: 1903155134ISBN 13: 9781903155134
Seller: GoldBooks, Denver, CO, U.S.A.
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Paperback. Condition: new. New Copy. Customer Service Guaranteed.
Published by Persephone Books Ltd, London, 2001
ISBN 10: 1903155134ISBN 13: 9781903155134
Seller: CitiRetail, Stevenage, United Kingdom
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Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. Richmal Crompton created William, the pugnacious anti-hero of thirty books selling over 8 million copies in her lifetime; but their author once hinted that a 'Frankenstein monster' had ambushed her forty novels for adults. Persephone Books publishes a 1948 novel about the life of two families during the inter-war years. Instead of seeing William at odds with adults, we are shown the matriarchs around whom their families spin; but whether they direct their children gently or forcefully, in the end they have to accept them as they are.We see that families can both entrap and sustain; that parents and children must respect each other; and that happiness necessitates jumping or being pushed off the family roundabout. This 1948 novel by the author of the 'Just William' stories presents the life of two families during the inter-war years. We are shown the contrasting matriarchs around whom their families spin; but whether they direct their children gently or forcefully, in the end they have to accept them as they are. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.
Published by Persephone Books Ltd, 2001
ISBN 10: 1903155134ISBN 13: 9781903155134
Seller: Pieuler Store, Suffolk, United Kingdom
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Condition: new. Book is in NEW condition. Satisfaction Guaranteed! Fast Customer Service!!.
Published by Persephone Books, 2001
ISBN 10: 1903155134ISBN 13: 9781903155134
Seller: BennettBooksLtd, North Las Vegas, NV, U.S.A.
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Condition: New. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title! 1.05.
Published by George Newnes Limited; Hutchinson's Universal Book Club 1926-1950, London, 1926
Cloth. Condition: Very Good. Thomas Henry (illustrator). Five smart volumes of exciting short story collections from Richmal Crompton Lamburn. Five volumes. Written by Richmal Crompton Lamburn, an English writer, popular for her Just William series and humorous short stories. Collections of children's short stories about the young school boy William Brown, which were the basis for numerous television series, films and radio adaptations. Books from the Just William Series: Still William, 1926. Fourth impression, originally published 1925. William The Bad, 1930. First cheap edition published September, originally published March of the same year. Just William, 1948. Thirty-seventh impression, originally published 1922. William Again, 1950. Thirty-first impression, originally published 1923. Illustrated throughout by Thomas Henry, English illustrator, best remembered for his illustrations for this series. Also includes: Family Roundabout, 1949. Universal Book Club Edition, first published 1948. A novel of the lives of two families during the inter-war years, following the matriarchs as they learn to accept their children for who they are. In the original red cloth binding. Externally, smart with light rubbing and bumping to the extremities. Fading to the spines. The odd mark to the board. Light fraying to the head of the spine of William The Bad. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are very bright and clean with the odd handling mark. Very Good. book.
Published by Persephone Books Ltd, 2001
ISBN 10: 1903155134ISBN 13: 9781903155134
Seller: The Book Spot, Sioux Falls, SD, U.S.A.
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Paperback. Condition: New.