The Children's Hour. [Author SIGNED copy.**]
by WILLETT**, MARCIA:
- Used
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- FINE./FINE.
- ISBN 10
- 059305119X
- ISBN 13
- 9780593051191
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UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,SIGNED,1st edn.FINE/FINE.No owner inscrptn, but author's neat,handwritten,black ink dedication+signature,to title page: 'To Zettie - With best wishes - Marcia Willett.',and no price- clip to dw/dj.Bright,clean,matt,colour photographic illustrated dw/dj; with negligible shelf-wear and creasing to edges and corners - no nicks or tears present.Top+fore-edges bright and clean; contents bright,tight and pristine - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners - an unread copy? Bright,clean and unblemished, publisher's original,plain maroon cloth boards with bright,crisp, stamped gilt letters to spine/backstrip and immaculate plain white endpapers.UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,SIGNED,1st edn,7-367pp [paginated] includes 43 chapters; plus [unpaginated] half-title page,SIGNED title page,and dedication. See also,my book ID rja625816,for another of her author SIGNED UK,HB+dw/dj,1st edn - 'A Week in Winter' and also rja807818 'The Christmas Angel' also a UK,8vo HB+dw/dj, SIGNED,1st edn. In the big old house overlooking the sea,five small children listened as their mother read them a story.Theirs was an idyllic childhood,as they played on the beach and in the gardens and woods,before the war - and other tragedies - disrupted their lives. Now,many years later,Nest and Mina still live at Ottercombe,their beautiful childhood home,surrounded by their dogs and the glory of the Devon countryside,thrilled by the occasional visits of their nephew and especially beloved niece.But when their sister Georgie,now somewhat frail and forgetful,comes to stay at Ottercombe,memories of their past start to revisit them.As a child, Georgie claimed to know all their secrets - secrets that she now wants to share.In this glorious novel Marcia Willett explores the richness of childhood memories and half-forgotten secrets. Author's first novel for this publisher.
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- R. J. A. PAXTON-DENNY. (GB)
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- Title
- The Children's Hour. [Author SIGNED copy.**]
- Author
- WILLETT**, MARCIA:
- Book Condition
- Used - FINE.
- Jacket Condition
- FINE.
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,SIGNED,1st edn.
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 059305119X
- ISBN 13
- 9780593051191
- Publisher
- LONDON.BANTAM PRESS,2003.
- Place of Publication
- London
- This edition first published
- 2003
- Keywords
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