THANKS TO JENNINGS
Written by Anthony Buckeridge
Illustrated by Mays
Published by Collins
in 1957
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THANKS TO JENNINGS
Written by Anthony Buckeridge.
Illustrated by Mays.
Stock no. 1327517
1960.
Hardback.
Very good condition in a almost very good dustwrapper.
Red boards, black title to spine. 4 b/w illustrations. Colour frontis. 256 pages. Top edge red. Spine and corners bumped. Name in ink to front free-endpaper. Endpapers are partly browned and there is pale page browning throughout. Contents are otherwise clean. Dustwrapper is edge worn with minimal loss, a couple of small grubby marks to rear panel.
Front cover
Contents
- A term at Linbury Court School would not be complete without JEnnings and Darbishire getting up to something. But this term exceeds all others in "hoo-hah's" as Darbishire would say. There was a photographic expedition which started off quietly enough; there was a guinea pig brought to the school by a well-meaning but misguided grandmother; there was a school inspector ..............
- It is a hilarious term with trouble brewing up thick and fast from every quarter, but finally it is Jennings himself who saves the situation and even Mr. Wilkins, his exasperated form master, has to admit that "there must be something to be said for the silly little boy, after all !"