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James Hilton Good-bye Mr. Chips
1934 0000000000 / 9780000000002 Hardcover Very Good
Hardcover, Very Good, no dust jacket, gift inscription on front free end paper, yellowing to the page edges, the title page has come partially detached from the rest of the pages, cover edge wear, some cover soiling. B32305G
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23.47 USD
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James Hilton Good-bye Mr. Chips
1934 0000000000 / 9780000000002 Hardcover Very Good
Hardcover, Very Good, no dust jacket, pencil markings on the front free end paper, some yellowing to the pages, cover soiling/ scuffing/ edge wear. B32321G
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23.47 USD
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James Hilton Good-bye, Mr. Chips, and other stories: James Hilton ; illustrations by Donna Diamond (The world's best reading)
Reader's Digest Association 1995 0895776308 / 9780895776303 Hardcover New
Brand New, Hardcover, clean, tight, unmarked. Fiction. The novel tells the story of a much-loved schoolteacher through the long years of his tenure at Brookfield, the fictional boys' public boarding school where he has taught. Arthur Chipping conquers his inability to connect with the boys at the school, as well as his initial shyness, when he marries Katherine, a young woman he meets on holiday who provides him with his nickname. "Chips", despite his own mediocre academic record, goes on to have an illustrious career as an inspiring educator at Brookfield. Although the book is unabashedly sentimental, it also depicts the sweeping social changes that Chips experiences throughout his life: he begins his tenure at Brookfield in 1870, as the Franco-Prussian War is breaking out, and lies on his deathbed shortly after Hitler's rise to power. At times, the book is rather ethnocentric. On numerous occasions, Chips ruminates on his faith in "English blood," and at one point makes a mildl... B13288G
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5.88 USD
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