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ON PRIMROSE HILL

by Jill Chaney

Illustrated by Jane Paton

Published by Methuen & Co. Ltd.. 1st. 1962

Very good condition in a slightly better than good dustwrapper. Ricky spends a holiday walking with William, a tramp, from Wells to Gloucester. Red boards with gilt and metallic blue titles to spine. B/w illustrations. 192 pages.

Bumping to spine, corners and lower edges. Ink inscription to front endpaper. Light browning to endpapers. Top of text block marked. Dustwrapper is edge worn and chipped with loss at top and bottom of spine. Surface paper damage near base of spine. Rear panel slightly grubby, spine faded. Two labels stuck to verso of spine and front fold to strengthen.

Stock no. 1502720

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Contents

  • Ricky was twelve when he trespassed in a bomb-damaged house and, unknown to his family, painted and furnished a room there. Then he met William - a man who worked in winter and became a tramp in summer.
  • Disaster took Ricky's room from him. But that summer he spent a holiday with William walking from Wells to Gloucester by way of Wookey Hole, Cheddar, Bath, Chipping Sodbury and Painswick. They collected on their way Patsy, a young maths mistress, Michel, a French boy, and Simon from the West Indies. They earned money by pea-picking, slept wherever they could (and sometimes in the open), learnt a lot about England, made many friends and met with trouble which nearly upset all their plans.

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