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hardcover. Condition: Very Good in Dustjacket. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. London. 1983. Hamish Hamilton. 1st British Edition. Very Good in Dustjacket. 0241109973. 156 pages. hardcover. Jacket artwork by Roy Knipe. keywords: Europe Scotland Literature World Literature. DESCRIPTION - We all, at one time or another, want to educate people. Billy Thompson is no different. Sent by his English middle-class parents to be a shipyard apprentice on Clydeside in the 1950s, he is an innocent abroad. The proud and private Scots with whom he throws in his lot on the steep streets of Greenock are something of a mystery to him - stubborn, unsophisticated and in many ways ignorant. But he has just what they need. He has an education. In each of these five connected stories Billy tries hard to pass on that education, to help those less fortunate than himself. So why can he not save the gentle Mrs. Mulvenny, his landlady, from the terrible consequences of her husband's pride? What has gone wrong when the girl from the ropeworks, red-haired Elsie, cannot be persuaded that having perfect pitch is more important than getting married and having a 'squaad o' weans'? And what sort of a world is it when you give your savings to a friend in need and he unrepentantly swindles you? Tom Gallacher, with an unerring instinct for the flavour of his Scottish setting and the clash of culture and personality, paints an extraordinarily true-to-life picture of Billy's initiation not only into ships and their building, but more importantly into the world of what he calls 'those spirited, funny and maddening people.' inventory #603.
Published by Hamish Hamilton, , 1st printing; 156 pp., 1983
Seller: Truman Price & Suzanne Price / oldchildrensbooks, Monmouth, OR, U.S.A.
First Edition
Hardcover. Dust Jacket Included. . (illustrator). 1st Edition. CONDITION: Very Good Plus in Fine jacket; REMAINDER mark bottom edge; unclipped 7.95 pounds. Juvenile hardback. Five connected stories about Billy Thompson, a middle class English boy sent to Scotland by his parents to become a shipyard apprentice and how Billy attempts to share his educated point of view with "those spirited funny and maddening people." ABE Heritage Seller since 1996; conservative AB condition grading. We ship all our books in cardboard protection. International shipping. .
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Paperback. Condition: Good. 190 pages.
Language: English
Published by Canongate Books 2003-02-15, 2003
ISBN 10: 1841952621 ISBN 13: 9781841952628
Seller: Chiron Media, Wallingford, United Kingdom
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Language: English
Published by Canongate Books 2003-02-15, 2003
ISBN 10: 1841952621 ISBN 13: 9781841952628
Seller: Chiron Media, Wallingford, United Kingdom
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Seller: Ria Christie Collections, Uxbridge, United Kingdom
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Published by Hamish Hamilton, London, 1983
Seller: Caledonia Books, Glasgow, United Kingdom
First Edition
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Add to basketCloth. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First Edition. Short stories set in the shipbuilding industry on Glasgow Clydeside. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
Paperback. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. First Paperback. White card covers, spine uncreased. Tanning to pages.