SOMEWHERE A BIRD IS SINGING Tapa dura - 1999

Hardback. Good.

Hardback. Very Good.

London: Book Club Associates. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 2000. Reprint; Second Printing. Hardcover. Book Club Edition . Light shelf wear and tear to unclipped DJ, light foxing to endpapers and edges of reading block. ; BCA CN7894, second printing. Black cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine. DJ artwork by Colin Backhouse. Heavy book and priced accordingly. ; 432 pages; Sally is an orphan living in Plymouth's Barbican, a late 19th century dockside slum, where a vile trade flourishes in young girls, duped and shipped off to the brothels of Europe. Her sister, Ruth, is driven to prostitution in order to support them, until she becomes too ill to work... .

First Edition, Signed by the Author, Little Brown and Company, 1999. The book is Very Good the dust jacket is Very good. Signed by the Author on title page, " To Barbara Happy Birthday" The dust jacket has only light edge wear and is price clipped. The spine is sound . The book has no other inscriptions. The pages are clean. Sent within 24 hours. Ref: BK1695.

UK, 8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.NFINE/NFINE.No owner inscrptn,and no price-clip to dw/dj.Bright,clean,glossy laminated,colour pictorial wrap-around artwork by Colin Backhouse,illustrated dw/dj; with negligible shelf-wear and minimal creasing to edges,corners,spine /backstrip - no nicks or tears present.Top+fore-edges lightly aged but clean,minimal grubbing to fore-edge; contents bright,tight and clean.UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn,2- 426pp (paginated). Sally is an orphan living in Plymouth's Barbican,a late 19thC dockside slum,where a vile trade flourishes in young girls,duped and shipped off to the brothels of Europe.Her sister,Ruth,is driven to prostitution in order to support them,until she becomes too ill to work.Now,with her sick sister to take care of in their single room home,Sally finds employment delivering wares for a local shop,meeting fisherman Ethan and,through him,Eva,a captain in the local Salvation Army.Eva has… Leer más

UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,author SIGNED,dedicated+dated,1st edn. FINE-/FINE-. No owner inscrptn,but author's neat,handwritten blue ink signature+dedication to title page: 'To Carol, Happy reading! E.V. Thompson',and no price-clip to dw/dj.Colour pictorial dw/dj; with negligible shelf-wear to edges and corners - no nicks,tears or splits present and light bumping+creasing to both head+foot of spine/ backstrip.Top+fore-edges aged/toned with minimal blemish,but clean; contents bright,tight and clean also - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corner tips.Publisher's bright,crisp,sharp-cornered,original plain blue cloth boards with bright,crisp,blocked gilt letters to spine/ backstrip and immaculate plain white endpapers.UK,8vo HB+dw/dj, author SIGNED,1st edn,2-426pp [paginated] includes 98 chapters and 2pp author's notes to rear. Sally is an orphan living in Plymouth's Barbican,a late 19thC dockside slum,where a vile trade flourishes in young girls,duped and shipped off to the brothels of Europe.Her… Leer más

UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,SIGNED,1st edn.NFINE/NFINE.No owner inscrptn,but author SIGNED to title page in handwritten,blue ink,and no price-clip to dw/dj.Colour pictorial dw/dj with minimal shelf-wear to edges and light bumping+ creasing to both head+foot of spine/backstrip.Small water stain to foot of inner front flap of dw/dj.Fore-edges clean; contents bright,tight and clean also.Book slightly cocked.Blue cloth boards with stamped gilt letters to spine/backstrip and plain white endpaperss.UK, 8vo HB+dw/dj,SIGNED,1st edn,2-426pp [paginated] includes 98 chapters and 2pp author's notes to rear.See also rja32678 for another SIGNED, dedicated+dated copy. Sally is an orphan living in Plymouth's Barbican,a late 19thC dockside slum,where a vile trade flourishes in young girls,duped and shipped off to the brothels of Europe.Her sister,Ruth,is driven to prostitution in order to support them,until she becomes too ill to work.Now, ith… Leer más