A North Country Maid
Rare and modern books
Craddock, Mary
George Mann,
1995
A North Country Maid
Rare and modern books
Craddock, Mary
George Mann,
1995
7.25 €
(Hyde,
United Kingdom)
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Details
- Year of publication
- 1995
- ISBN
- 0704102587
- Place of printing
- Maidstone, Kent
- Author
- Craddock, Mary
- Publishers
- George Mann
- Size
- 9.25 x 6.25 inches
- Keyword
- Depression, Durham, Mining, 1930s,
- Cover description
- Very Good (+)
- Binding description
- Hard Cover
- Dust jacket
- True
- State of preservation
- Fine
- Languages
- English
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Inscribed
- False
- First edition
- False
Description
No inscriptions or marks. A lovely clean crisp very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or torn with slight creasing to upper and lower edges. 160pp. A touching, funny and affectionate account of what it was like to grow up during the terrible industrial Depression of the inter-war years. Childhood in Rainton: a mining village near Newcastle in the 1920's & 1930's. A cheerful, vital book, full of humour, and of love of the countryside that flourished in spite of the pits."-The Times.
