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Tark Classic Fiction, 2008-01-20. Paperback. Good.

Paperback. Very Good.

MP3 Audio CD. Mike: A Public School Story CHAPTER I MIKE It was a morning in the middle of April, and the Jackson family were consequently breakfasting in comparative silence. The cricket season had not begun, and except during the cricket season they were in the habit of devoting their powerful minds at breakfast almost exclusively to the task of victualling against the labours of the day. In May, June, July, and August the silence was broken. The three grown-up Jacksons played regularly in first-class cricket, and there was always keen competition among their brothers and sisters for the copy of the Sportsman which was to be found on the hall table with the letters. Whoever got it usually gloated over it in silence till urged wrathfully by the multitude to let them know what had happened; when it would appear that Joe had notched his seventh century, or that Reggie had been run out when he was just getting set, or, as sometimes occurred, that that ass Frank had dropped Fry or Hayward in the… Read More

MP3 Audio CD. Mike: A Public School Story ? Brilliant Humor and an Exciting Story for All AgesMike: A Public School Story, by P. G. Wodehouse, is a classic example of brilliant Wodehousian humor and a story woven in the exciting, yet serene way Wodehouse is so renowned for ? small wonder the story launched Wodehouse as a successful writer. The main characters of the novel are well-known to most Wodehouse fans, especially those who have read the writer?s later works. This time, the story takes us way back in time and we encounter Mike and Psmith, meeting for the first time in a boarding school.The first part of the book, entitled Mike at Wrykyn, presents the main character, Michael ?Mike? Jackson, the youngest of the three sons of the Jackson family. We see a bright boy with a remarkable talent in playing cricket and what we also see is the true passion Wodehouse had for cricket, too. The second part of the novel takes the reader to another school. Mike spent two years at Wrykyn, but was taken by his… Read More

MP3 Audio CD. Mike: A Public School Story ? Brilliant Humor and an Exciting Story for All AgesMike: A Public School Story, by P. G. Wodehouse, is a classic example of brilliant Wodehousian humor and a story woven in the exciting, yet serene way Wodehouse is so renowned for ? small wonder the story launched Wodehouse as a successful writer. The main characters of the novel are well-known to most Wodehouse fans, especially those who have read the writer?s later works. This time, the story takes us way back in time and we encounter Mike and Psmith, meeting for the first time in a boarding school.The first part of the book, entitled Mike at Wrykyn, presents the main character, Michael ?Mike? Jackson, the youngest of the three sons of the Jackson family. We see a bright boy with a remarkable talent in playing cricket and what we also see is the true passion Wodehouse had for cricket, too. The second part of the novel takes the reader to another school. Mike spent two years at Wrykyn, but was taken by his… Read More

MP3 Audio CD. Mike: A Public School Story CHAPTER I MIKE It was a morning in the middle of April, and the Jackson family were consequently breakfasting in comparative silence. The cricket season had not begun, and except during the cricket season they were in the habit of devoting their powerful minds at breakfast almost exclusively to the task of victualling against the labours of the day. In May, June, July, and August the silence was broken. The three grown-up Jacksons played regularly in first-class cricket, and there was always keen competition among their brothers and sisters for the copy of the Sportsman which was to be found on the hall table with the letters. Whoever got it usually gloated over it in silence till urged wrathfully by the multitude to let them know what had happened; when it would appear that Joe had notched his seventh century, or that Reggie had been run out when he was just getting set, or, as sometimes occurred, that that ass Frank had dropped Fry or Hayward in the… Read More

A. & C. Black Ltd, 1928. Hardcover. Acceptable. 1928. Reprint. 339 pages. No dust jacket. Quarter leather bound to blue boards, with gilt lettering. Rebound. Colour illustrations throughout. Mild brown staining to pages on occasion. Notable foxing and tanning to endpapers and page edges. Some gutter cracking. Presentation plate to front endpaper. Mild wear and bumping to spine, board edges and corners. Notable sunning to spine, with scuffing, staining and marking to boards. Book has a forward lean.

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Black, 1936. Hardcover. Poor/No Jacket. Mainly a reading copy. Quite worn and marked.. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.

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A & C Black 1924. Octavo, blue buckram boards, black lettering & decorative rule to spine & front board, frontispiece, vii + 339pp, illus, in removable protective clear plastic cover, VG- (heavy chipping to spine extrems, moderate scuffing to spine & board edges, moderate tanning & foxing to page edges & eps, inscription in ink to fep, owner's name plate to half title page, sporadic light foxing to pages throughout, cracks to gutters)

4, 5 & 6 Soho square, London W.1.: A & C Black Ltd., 1924. This edition published in Autumn 1924 with four full page illustrations in colour by J. H. Hartley.Blue boards with dark blue lettering and a repeating pattern of small squares and rectangular bars on the spine and front board , Publishers decorative monogram logo on the front.[x]339 pages. 4 colour plates. Browning to page edges, browning, spotting and offsetting to endpapers, school prize label on front pastedown, dated 1924. Very good copy.. Reprint. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. Illus. by J. H. Hartley.

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