Miss Clare Remembers
Miss Read, Illustrated by J. S. Goodall , Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1963 Stated First American Edition. Octavo. Light blue/green hardcover, paper boards with teal green, cloth spine. Illustrated DJ is chipped at the corners and spine ends; mot price clipped. Text is clean and tight. Endpapers are black and white illustrated. Miss Clare, who taught the infants class at Fairacre for the greater part of her life. Now in her seventies, and retired, living alone in the cottage which has been her home since 1894, Miss Clare looks back upon a quiet life passed in a remote English village. The changes in its aspect, its way of life, and its education, the impact of two wars and the events of six reigns form the background to Miss Clares own story. It is a tale of an old country-woman who, for all her serenity and peacefulness of her surroundings, had many a private battle to fight. Media shipping is 3.50, priority 5.00.
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