Good-bye, Mr. Chips

by James Hilton

$750 · Offered by James Cummins Bookseller

First British edition. Illustrated by Bip Pares. 128pp. 8vo. Blue cloth lettered in gilt; spine with small creases, lightly cocked. Near fine in very good original pictorial unclipped dust-jacket with small nicks to edges, lightly rubbed especially to back panel. Item #375670 Hilton wrote Mr. Chips at a time when British public schools were under fire, and his defense of traditionalism seemed reassuring to

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