SECOND-HAND FAMILY
RICHARD PARKER
Published by The Bobbs-Merrill Co, IN, 1965
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TITLE: SECOND-HAND FAMILY By RICHARD PARKER 1965 AUTHOR: RICHARD PARKER PUBLISHER - (LOCATION) /COPYRIGHT: The Bobbs-Merrill Co., IN 1965 EDITION: First Edition assumed with none stated CATEGORY: Children .---. BINDING/COVER: Hardback with dust jacket CONDITION: (All defects if any are formulated into pricing by ViewFair Books. If ViewFair Books miss any defects or highlights on any book/printings, our policy is to make immediate amends to any customer): There is library discard stamp on both the inside boards. No other indication of a ex-library copy. Book is without marks or writings, pages are clean, and book is tight and sturdy. There is a still on the front bottom of the flap. Good/Good dust jacket condition. SIZE: 5 ½ x 8 ½ (approximately) PAGES: 115 pages Extra pictures located at the following: BACKGROUND/DESCRIPTION: First Edition assumed. The Bobbs-Merrill Co., IN 1965. ILLUSTRATED By GARETH FLOYD. Giles is taken to another foster family named the Maxwells. COMPETITIVE PRICING! Once paid books will ship immediately without email notification to customer (it's on the way), you are welcomed to email about shipment date! REFUNDS: All ViewFair books, prints, and manuscript items are 100% refundable up to 10 business days after item is received. InvCode E14 H V VIEWFAIR BOOKS: 004335 Size: 8 x 5. Seller Inventory # 004335
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Title: SECOND-HAND FAMILY
Publisher: The Bobbs-Merrill Co, IN
Publication Date: 1965
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: Good
Dust Jacket Condition: Good
Edition: 1st Edition
Book Type: Book
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Second-Hand Family
Published by
Scholastic Book Services, New York, 1969
Used
Soft Cover
Seller: Top Notch Books, Tolar, TX, U.S.A.
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Soft Cover. Condition: Good. Floyd, Gareth (illustrator). Wraps have light wear, spine is unbent, small stain on front. Front reverse has small erasure marks. Pages lightly tanning, no markings in text. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Seller Inventory # 235443B
Second-Hand Family
Published by
The Childrens Book Club, London England, 1965
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Hardcover
Seller: The London Bookworm, East Sussex, United Kingdom
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Cloth. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Gareth Floyd (illustrator). 1st Childrens Book Club Edition. Hardback. Foxing to end inside covers and edge. Couple of marks to back cloth. Red cloth with black lettering. Giles Willis believed that no one had ever wanted him - his life was a succession of short stays with foster parents. The Maxwell family appeared to him to be yet another household prepared to put up with him to earn the money they needed. Especially difficult is Martin, the guitar-playing some of the house, whose only interest is in the 'beat music' he and his group plays. But somehow, Giles and the Maxwells find their lives changing.Illustrations. 120. 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.). Seller Inventory # 077802
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Second-Hand Family.
Published by
Children's Book Club, London
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Hardcover
First Edition
Seller: NorWest Books (UK), Minehead, United Kingdom
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Hardcover. Condition: Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Gareth Floyd (illustrator). First Thus. Red Cloth, 120 Pages, Illustrated. A Bright And Soundly Bound Book, A Little Foxing Otherwise Internally Unmarked. The Dustjacket Is Complete, Bright, No Tears, A Little Handleng-Wear Only. Not Ex Library. Seller Inventory # 029731
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Second Hand Family
Published by
The Childrens Book Club, 1965
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Hardcover
Seller: Crappy Old Books, Barry, United Kingdom
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Hardback. Condition: Good. Second Hand Family (1965) By Richard Parker | The Children?s Book Club ISBN: none (families, not numbers, were the priority) Condition: Good, with a slight charming lean to the spine Offered by: Crappy Old Books Some children get brand new families. Shiny, matching, straight out of the box. Others, as Richard Parker cheerfully points out, get something a bit more? previously owned . Second Hand Family is a wonderfully 1960s children?s novel about what happens when life does not come packaged as the tidy nuclear setup the school posters promised. Instead, you get a family with history, dents, attachments, odd relatives, unexpected steps, and at least one person who doesn?t know where the teaspoons live. What?s it about? Without giving away the whole plot, you?re looking at something like this: A child (or children) suddenly finds themselves in a reassembled household : new guardians or step-parents extra siblings they didn?t order an unfamiliar house with someone else?s wallpaper and rules Grown-ups insisting that ?you?ll soon settle in? while clearly winging it. A slow, funny, occasionally painful process of working out: who belongs where who calls whom what and whether this cobbled-together arrangement can actually feel like home . This isn?t a saccharine fairy tale where everyone loves each other by page 10. It?s closer to real life: suspicious, awkward, often very funny, and full of small, stubborn kindnesses. The tone: wry, warm, very human Richard Parker has that classic mid-century children?s writer knack for: Taking kids? feelings seriously Refusing to talk down to them And still managing to be entertaining rather than unbearably worthy Expect: Sharp little observations about adults who don?t quite know what they?re doing Sibling friction, misunderstandings and the occasional spectacular strop Moments where you realise that ?second hand? doesn?t necessarily mean ?second best? ? it just means everyone?s turning up with a backstory. It?s the sort of book that quietly says, ?Yes, this is weird, and yes, you?re allowed to feel odd about it,? before gently leaning you towards hope. This particular copy Condition: Good ? perfectly sturdy, definitely readable, and very much ready for another round of emotional reshuffling. The cloth boards and pages are in decent shape, with the usual mild signs of age and former ownership: softening at corners gentle tanning of pages possibly the faint aura of having lived on a child?s bookshelf for several decades. And: Has slight slant to spine. Which feels? thematically appropriate. This is not a perfectly straight, never-touched specimen. It?s a book that literally leans a bit , much like its characters leaning into a family arrangement that?s not quite standard issue. Think of it as: structurally fine cosmetically tilted spiritually on-brand. Why you might actually want this You collect mid-century children?s fiction that deals with real-life issues before ?issue books? became A Genre. You like stories about step-families, foster situations or patchwork households that are honest but not bleak. You enjoy that flavour of 1960s British kids? writing where everyone still calls adults ?sir? or ?ma?am? sometimes, but emotional chaos is quietly acknowledged. You have a taste for slightly obscure Children?s Book Club editions?sturdy little hardbacks from a time when libraries and book clubs did the heavy lifting of getting decent stories into young hands. It?s also a very good candidate for re-reading as an adult and going, ?Ah. So that?s what it was trying to tell me back then.? Condition vs. Content Physically: Good , with that endearing spine slant which simply proves it has actually been read, not shelved purely for display. Emotionally: more truthful and resilient than a lot of modern ?everything is fine now? endings, but still fundamentally kind. Ideal for: Grown-up kids from ?second hand? families who recognise the title a little too well Teachers, parents and librarians with a soft spot for thoughtful vintage stories Anyone who finds it beautifully on-the-nose that a book called Second Hand Family is being sold?in Good but slightly skew-whiff condition?by Crappy Old Books Because sometimes the best families, like the best books, are the ones that have clearly been used, leaned on, and loved a little sideways. Seller Inventory # 5038
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Second-hand Family
Published by
Brockhampton, UK, 1965
Used
Hardcover
First Edition
Seller: Mad Hatter Books, Auckland, New Zealand
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Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Gareth Floyd (illustrator). First Edition. Hardback: illustrated by GARETH FLOYD, dj edges are slightly worn, price clipped, foxed on jacket plus some spots internally and on foredges, else g. 8vo, 121pp. Giles is taken to yet another foster family, the Maxwells. Seller Inventory # 10F168
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SECOND-HAND FAMILY
Published by
LONDON: THE CHILDREN'S BOOK CLUB, 1965
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Hardcover
Seller: Haddington Rare Books, North Berwick, United Kingdom
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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 8vo, pp, 120, illustrated by Gareth Floyd, black titled red cloth, pictorial unclipped dust-jacket, light foxing to leading endpapers. Seller Inventory # Ref2065
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Second Hand Family Parker
Seller: Better World Books, Mishawaka, IN, U.S.A.
Seller rating 5 out of 5 stars
Condition: Good. Former library copy. Pages intact with minimal writing/highlighting. The binding may be loose and creased. Dust jackets/supplements are not included. Includes library markings. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good. Seller Inventory # 45164553-6
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Second Hand Family Parker
Seller: Better World Books, Mishawaka, IN, U.S.A.
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Condition: Good. Pages intact with minimal writing/highlighting. The binding may be loose and creased. Dust jackets/supplements are not included. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good. Seller Inventory # 19161662-20
Second-Hand Family
Published by
Bobbs-Merrill Indianapolis 1965, 1965
Used
Hardcover
Seller: Table of Contents, Omaha, NE, U.S.A.
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Hardbound Good+/Good-., DJ Floyd, Gareth illus. 8vo, 114, General wear to book. Letter "B" stamped on front endpaper. DJ has wear to edges/corners. DJ has been wet on bottom spine edge. Book does not appear to be affected. Seller Inventory # 002388