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The Marvellous Boy
| Binding: | Hardcover |
| Volume Condition: | Good |
| Dust Jacket: | Yes |
| Dust Jacket Condition: | Good |
| Dust Jacket Protection: | Brodart-style sleeve |
| Edition: | 1st Edition |
| Signature: | None |
| Language: | English |
| Publisher Name: | Hamish Hamilton |
| Publication Year: | 1959 |
| Publication Place: | London, UK |
| Book ID: | 020058 |
| Catalogue(s): | Children's Books - Fiction |
First edition. 224pp. Green cloth-covered boards with gilt titles on spine. 12mo. Lightly bumped spine ends, light soiling to boards. Text block edges are tanned with some foxing. School library bookplate on front pastedown, pocket and lending sheet on rear endpapers. Gutter stretched at preface page, volume quite loose. Internally neat, clean and bright. Dust jacket protected with Brodart-style sleeve (attached to front pastedown), has light shelf wear, rubbed spine ends; not price clipped.
An entertaining story of a young boy from a difficult home on a housing estate drifts into grammar school and from then his fate is in the hands of his teachers.
