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Crompton, Richmal.
William and A.R.P.
Publisher: George Newnes,Limited, London;
Date of Publication: 1939
Stock Code: 12579
First “Cheap” Edition. Octavo, pp. 256. Illustrated throughout with line drawings by Thomas Henry, including frontispiece. Publishers’ original red cloth with black titles to spine in unclipped pictorial dust-jacket also illustrated by Thomas Henry, with “Second Impression” and price 2/6 to front as issued. A very good book in a like dust-jacket. Cover cloth slightly sunned along top edge. Neat ownership details pencilled to front paste-down, and dated to year of publication. Further pencilled gift inscription to front free end-paper. End-papers and text-block edge a touch foxed otherwise contents clean. Dust-jacket lightly soiled to white panels and nicked & creased to edge, with minor loss to lower panel. 21st title in the popular Just William series, later republished as “William’s Bad Resolution” in 1956. Scarce, especially in the delicate dust-jacket. £85.00