About this title: This is Paul Bailey's account of growing up as a working class and gay man in South London just after World War I. His father came back from war to find that he'd been abandoned by his wife, and in early middle age - working as a road sweeper - he married a young servant girl. Bailey was one of three children brought up in such poverty that up to ...
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Description: Good. 1991-Paperback----Used-Good-Hall Street Books proudly ships from Brooklyn, NY. All orders are processed and shipped within 24 hours, M-F. 100% money back No-Worry guarantee with expedited delivery and delivery confirmation available. read more
Binding: PAPERBACK
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
Date Published: 1991
ISBN-13:9780140148572ISBN:0140148574
Description: Good. Paperback, light reading creases otherwise good condition. Your book will be securely packed and promptly dispatched from our UK warehouse. read more
Edition: First Revised Edition
Binding: Paper Back
Publisher: Penguin Books, Harmondsworth, Middlesex
Date Published: 1991
ISBN-13:9780140148572ISBN:0140148574
Description: Nr Very Good. No Jacket. 12mo-over 6¾"-7¾" tall. Lower rear corner creased. Minor handling wear. Pages yellowing. 164pp. read more
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Bloomsbury, UK
Date Published: 1990
ISBN-13:9780747506300ISBN:0747506302
Description: Very Good + in Very Good + jacket. Hardcover A very good first edition, first printing, with clean tight pages having no inscriptions, set in clean square coverboards. The priced jacket has NO tears, nicks, rubs or scuffs and negligible edge wrinkles. read more
Edition: First edition
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Dutton, New York
Date Published: 1992
Description: 'This tale of growing up gay in working class Cockney London of the 1940s and 1950s is wonderfully literate, full of charm, and totally engrossing. ' A splendid autobiography. Fine in fi ne dust jacket. read more
Edition: 1st Edition
Binding: HARDCOVER
Publisher: Bloomsbury, London
Date Published: 1990
ISBN-13:9780747506300ISBN:0747506302
Description: FINE+ in FINE+ jacket. Hardback 167pp. 1st Edition...............[ CONDITION DETAILS: An extremely well preserved and very clean and tight FINE+, as new un-or barely-read copy in FINE+, as new Dust Jacket ].......Unless otherwise noted: 1st Edition means First Printing; books are in the original publishers binding; wrappers (present only if mentioned above) are complete, un-clipped and provided with transparent protectors. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Date Published: 31/05/1990
ISBN-13:9780747506300ISBN:0747506302
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Date Published: 31/05/1990
ISBN-13:9780747506300ISBN:0747506302
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
Date Published: 28/11/1991
ISBN-13:9780140148572ISBN:0140148574
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
Date Published: 28/11/1991
ISBN-13:9780140148572ISBN:0140148574
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Date Published: 31/05/1990
ISBN-13:9780747506300ISBN:0747506302
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Edition: 1st Printing
Binding: Trade Paperback
Publisher: Penguin, New York, NY
Date Published: 1991
ISBN-13:9780140148572ISBN:0140148574
Description: Good- Pages yellowed. binding tight. edge wear with ink rubbing. corners dented and chipped and starting to split. top and bottom binding edges dented. front and back spine edges ink chipped. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Date Published: 1990
ISBN-13:9780747506300ISBN:0747506302
Description: Good in GOOD jacket. The Books are shipped from Bodmin, Cornwall, UK. Any book can be returned for full credit, for any reason within 10 days of receipt. Clean tight book, cover little rubbed. read more
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