Friends Thrush Green by Read Miss, First Edition (25 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Slant to block o/w clean, unmarked copy with sharp corners, firm hinges. DJ bright, colorful with nominal wear to crown, slight soiling to rear panel o/w VG condition. BP/Fict.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Illustrated by John S. Goodall (illustrator). First Edition. Mild part spotting to text block edge, dust potting to top, red bds clean and bright, dw has very faint surface marks to edges of rear cover, some fade to spine. Now in protective removable clear plastic book wrap. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 244 pages.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good+. Illustrated by Goodall, John S (illustrator). Reprint; First Printing. Light reading and cover creases, old ink price on front endpaper. ; First printing of mass market edition with full number line. Nice tight flat copy, no names inside. Cover artwork by Stephen Lavis. ; B&W Illustrations; 256 pages; When the retired schoolteachers Dorothy and Agnes return to visit their many friends at Thrush Green, they find it full of excitement and gossip. As usual! Mass Market PB.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Goodall, John S. (illustrator). First Edition. First Edition / First Printing as identified with "1" in the full number line.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Illustrated by J S Goodall (illustrator). First Edition. 1st edition; h/b; d/w; vg/Vg; 8vo; 244pp; a nice copy with previous owners ex libris plate on rear of fep; just top blocked page foredges have foxing; d/w not price clipped, but spine a little faded; ; Thrush Green; 8vo 8" - 9" tall.

Hardcover. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: As New. Goodall, John S. (illustrator). 1st Edition. Hbk, 261pp, stated 1st American edition, illustr b+w drawings, an excellent clean tight unmarked copy in fine unclipped ($19.95) dj now in protective sleeve as new.

Hardback. Condition: nrFine. Dust Jacket Condition: nrFine DW. 1st Edition.

8vo., First Edition, with title-vignette, illustrations in the text and pictorial endpapers; red cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in price-clipped dustwrapper.

Hardcover first edition - First edition. A Miss Read Omnibus with two complete novels - The School at Thrush Green and Friends at Thrush Green - in one volume. Illustrated by J.S. Goodall. 494 pp. Very near fine in a like dustjacket (usual light toning to the pages, crimp at top of spine).

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First American edition. Fine in fine dustwrapper. Beautiful copy.

Hardcover. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: As New. 1st Edition. Hbk, 244pp, stated 1st American edition, illustr b+w drawings and decorated endpapers, an excellent clean tight unmarked copy in fine unclipped ($16.95) dj now in protective sleeve as new.

First edition hard back binding in publisher's original strawberry cloth covered boards, gilt title and author lettering to the spine, illustrated end papers. 8vo. 8'' x 5½''. Contains 2544 pp with monochrome illustrations throughout. Very Good condition book in Very Good condition dust wrapper with slight sun fading down the spine, not price clipped. Dust wrapper supplied in archive acetate film protection. Member of the P.B.F.A. MODERN FIRST EDITIONS.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. First impression of the first edition. Bright clean copy in hardly read condition. Pretty much as new with no inscriptions and clean pages throughout the book, albeit the page block edge looks a tiny bit toned. Fresh cloth boards with crisp gilt titles on the spine. Lovely, bright unclipped dust jacket with just some light edge wear including a tiny tear/crease at the head of the spine. Tiny bit of a lean to the spine/cocking, although hardly even noticeable. Great copy.

First edition hard back binding in publisher's original scarlet cloth covers, gilt lettering to the spine. 8vo 8'' x 5ĵ'' 244 pp ISBN 0718133897. Monochrome illustrations throughout. Fine condition book, in Fine condition dust wrapper, not price clipped. Dust wrapper supplied in archive acetate film protection, this is not adhered to the book or to the dust wrapper and can easily be removed should you so wish. Member of the P.B.F.A. MODERN FIRST EDITIONS.

Hardcover. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: As New. 1st Edition. Type: Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. J. S. Goodall (illustrator). First UK Edition, First Printing. Illustrated endpapers, line drawings with the text. No faults for the book, no inscriptions. Dust jacket; price clipped, otherwise fine; protected.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. Jacket and illustrations by John S. Goodall (illustrator). 1st Edition. First omnibus edition, first impression. Some minor edge wear to top and bottom of jacket and spine, spine very slightly faded, but overall jacket fresh and bright. Not price clipped (£16.99), no inscriptions, internally clean tight and square, overall a vg++ copy. 494pp. From 1955 to 1996 Saint wrote a series of novels centred on two fictional villages, Fairacre and Thrush Green. The first Fairacre novel appeared in 1955, the last in 1996. The first Thrush Green novel appeared in 1959. The principal character in the books, Miss Read, is an unmarried schoolteacher in a small village school, an acerbic and yet compassionate observer of village life. Dora Saint's (1913-2012), novels are wry regional social comedies, laced with gentle humour and subtle social commentary. Saint was also a keen observer of nature and the changing seasons. Quite scarce in this collected edition.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. GOODALL JOHN S (illustrator). First Edition. MISS READ NOVEL IN NICE CONDITION. TIGHT FIRM CLEAN THROUGHOUT. HAS PREVIOUS OWNERS NAME AND ADDRESS STICKER ON FFP. RED CLOTH HARD COVER WITH VERY SLIGHTLY COCKING TO SPINE. GILT EMBOSSED TITLES. COMPLETE JACKET WITH NO VISIBLE WEAR.