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Very Good in Very Good jacket. Book First printing of first UK edition. Very Good in a Very Good dust jacket. Brief (non-authorial) gift inscription on front endpage. Book rather over-opened at title page. Binding is square and sound. Jacket has mild edge-wear, including a chip at bottom of rear flap fold and a short (one-quarter-inch) tear at the top of that flap fold. Publisher's original price intact on front flap.
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London. 1974. Heinemann. Reprinted Edition. Previous Owner's Inscription in Front, Otherwise Very Good in Worn Dustjacket With Some Tears. 0434948942. Illustrated by Antony Maitland. 153 pages. hardcover. keywords: Children's Books England Women. FROM THE PUBLISHER-The Ghost of Thomas Kempe is a fantasy novel for children by Penelope Lively, first published by Heinemann in 1973 with illustrations by Anthony Maitland. Set in present-day Oxfordshire, it features a boy and his modern family who are new in their English village, and seem beset by a poltergeist. Soon the boy makes acquaintance with the eponymous Thomas Kempe, ghost of a 17th-century resident sorcerer who intends to stay. Lively won the annual Carnegie Medal from the Library Association, recognising the year's best children's book by a British subject. inventory #10178.