Becket's Bones to the Blitz: Seven More Canterbury Tales for Children Unknown - 1998

Chough Press, Canterbury, 1998,. 1998. Soft cover. 0952938316 paperback, large 8vo, 56pp, illustrated, clean and tight, no inscriptions, spine not creased, Very Good condition. ISBN: 0952938316 .

Canterbury, Kent: Chough Press, 1998. NrF. First edition. Paperback. SIGNED BY AUTHOR, without dedication on title-page. Signing reads, 'Best wishes/Marjorie Lyle'. 56pp. Illustrated with photographs and line-drawings. Seven historical short stories about Canterbury, Kent including; 'Tom, Dick and Harry', (an adventure at St Thomas' Shrine in 1538); 'Tom Marlowe and the Spanish Armada', (a tale of spies, war and a famous playwright in 1588); 'Joe's Christmas', (a Civil War story about the Canterbury riots of 1647); 'Suzanne's Escape', (how one of the foreign silk-weavers took her chance in 1685); 'Tom Cooper and the Archbishop', (who would help a poor boy become an artist in 1812?); 'Becky, Louise and the Railway', (a tale of rich and poor at the start of the railway age in 1830); 'Henrietta's Firebomb', (a roof-top adventure in Canterbury's blitz of 1942). Light sunning around spine; else a near fine copy of a SCARCE… Leer más

Used - Good. Ships from the UK. Former library book; may include library markings. Used book that is in clean, average condition without any missing pages.