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Synopsis

Fourth impression.

Item Description

8vo. 8.25 x 5.75 inches. 401 + [1] pp. Bound in original black cloth, gilt, in price clipped pictorial dust wrapper, which has been neatly repaired. Extremities worn, including corners and edges. Foxing of page edges, endpapers, preliminaries, scattered elsewhere; otherwise a very good copy. Illustrated. throughout with drawings by Ronald Searle. Pictorial Endpapers. An omnibus edition of three previous titles, Down with Skool!, how to be Topp and Whizz for Atoms (originally published 1953, 54 and 56), and a complete new book, Back in the Jug Again (1958). The Molesworth books, narrated the humorous adventures of Nigel Molesworth, set in the imaginary boarding school of St Custard's. The character was created by Geoffrey Willans (1911-58) and drawn by the famous satirical cartoonist, Ronald Searle (1920-2011). First published in this complete edition in 1958.