Fall of Man 1955 book by Rupert Croft-Cooke

Rupert Croft-Cooke

Verlag: Macmillan

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Immediate dispatch from Somerset. Nice older book in good condition. Pages in good condition. Some tanning and marking due to age. No notes or highlighting. See images. Fantastic book. About the book >.>.> On occasion I would be 'asked to tea' at Woodside and Antony and I would sit at the nursery table while Mrs. Scaw and Antony's brothers and sister would join us. There was a good deal of a process called by all of them 'ragging' in which Antony's mother was a ring- leader. Antony suffered it without ill-humour, even, it seems to me now, with a certain dignity. We might be brought into the nursery to find only bread-and-butter on the table and the older children, who were privy to the joke, would act and talk as though they had noticed nothing unusual. I, of course, would be fighting back tears of disappointment but Antony would scarcely notice, thus spoiling the fun and causing the good things, the cakes and jams, to be brought from their hiding-places earlier than was intended. As a guest I was given a dis- pensation from what followed. 'Poor old Antony! He thought there was going to be no jam!' 'Had you on toast that time, Antony!' Antony would smile quite easily but. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers Batch-FM369-G-8808

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Titel: Fall of Man 1955 book by Rupert Croft-Cooke

Verlag: Macmillan

Einband: Hardcover

Zustand: Good