Book Details
Title: The Maythorn Story
Author: Geoffrey Trease
Illustrator: Robert Hodgson
Publisher: Heinemann
Year: 1960
Impression/Edition: N/A
Cover: Hardcover
Pages: 217
Dimensions:
Weight:
ISBN: N/A
Battle Scars:
Overall acceptable condition.
Outside:
The dust cover is intact with rubbing and some small tears to edges, corners and ends of the spine. The hardcover is intact with shelf wear (rubbing) to edges, ends and corners as pictured. The gilding of the title on the spine is intact.
The page profiles (seen when book is closed) are yellowed with some foxing.
Inside:
The binding is firm and intact.
Inside the front and back covers has foxing
The pages have some occasional foxing, with more on the front and back few pages. The pages are intact.
Don't forget to check the photos below for a visual and make sure you are happy prior to purchase. Happy to answer questions if there is information missing.
Book Content:
""Nothing happens in Nine-fields!" jeered the girl next door. Mike Maythorn agreed. Bored with town streets, drab canal, and weed-grown building site, he started out for the hills one Saturday in search of something different. He was not disappointed - there was the archeaeological dig he found in progress, and he made a new friend in Sandra, a very different type from the girl next door.
Then, as if his expedition had sparked them off, things began to happen as well in the industrial city he had thought so dull - there was even a little matter involving the police. Modern young readers who want stories that are true to their own lives will approve this book, in which the problems are human and real. They will like and understand Mike and Sandra, who finds her country home lovely but lonely and whose grandmother has stuffy ideas about 'suitable friends'. There is appeal, too, in the contrasted settings, as the story moves to and fro between the drab town and the enchanted landscape of the West Midlands and Welsh border."
Book Details
Title: The Maythorn Story
Author: Geoffrey Trease
Illustrator: Robert Hodgson
Publisher: Heinemann
Year: 1960
Impression/Edition: N/A
Cover: Hardcover
Pages: 217
Dimensions:
Weight:
ISBN: N/A
Battle Scars:
Overall acceptable condition.
Outside:
The dust cover is intact with rubbing and some small tears to edges, corners and ends of the spine. The hardcover is intact with shelf wear (rubbing) to edges, ends and corners as pictured. The gilding of the title on the spine is intact.
The page profiles (seen when book is closed) are yellowed with some foxing.
Inside:
The binding is firm and intact.
Inside the front and back covers has foxing
The pages have some occasional foxing, with more on the front and back few pages. The pages are intact.
Don't forget to check the photos below for a visual and make sure you are happy prior to purchase. Happy to answer questions if there is information missing.
Book Content:
""Nothing happens in Nine-fields!" jeered the girl next door. Mike Maythorn agreed. Bored with town streets, drab canal, and weed-grown building site, he started out for the hills one Saturday in search of something different. He was not disappointed - there was the archeaeological dig he found in progress, and he made a new friend in Sandra, a very different type from the girl next door.
Then, as if his expedition had sparked them off, things began to happen as well in the industrial city he had thought so dull - there was even a little matter involving the police. Modern young readers who want stories that are true to their own lives will approve this book, in which the problems are human and real. They will like and understand Mike and Sandra, who finds her country home lovely but lonely and whose grandmother has stuffy ideas about 'suitable friends'. There is appeal, too, in the contrasted settings, as the story moves to and fro between the drab town and the enchanted landscape of the West Midlands and Welsh border."
