Down with skool! : a guide to school life for tiny pupils and their parents / written by Geofrey Willans ; illustrated by Ronald Searle ; contanes full lowdown on skools, swots, snekes, cad, prigs bulies headmasters, criket foopball, dirt roters, funks, parents, masters, wizard wheezes, weeds, aple pie beds and various other chizzes -- in fact the lot.

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Willans, Geoffrey, 1911-1958, Down with skool! , 1953

Creator:: Willans, Geoffrey, 1911–1958
Title(s):: Down with skool! : a guide to school life for tiny pupils and their parents / written by Geofrey Willans ; illustrated by Ronald Searle ; contanes full lowdown on skools, swots, snekes, cad, prigs bulies headmasters, criket foopball, dirt roters, funks, parents, masters, wizard wheezes, weeds, aple pie beds and various other chizzes -- in fact the lot.
Additional Title(s):: Down with school
Published/Created:: London : Max Parrish, 1953.
London ; Eccles : Made and printed in Great Britain by William Clowes and Sons Limited
Physical Description:: 106 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm
Holdings:: Rare Books and Manuscripts
PR6045.I39 D69 1953
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Stephen Parks, Yale BA 1961
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Copyright Status:: Copyright Not Evaluated
Full Orbis Record:: http://hdl.handle.net/10079/bibid/13546266
Classification:: Books
Notes:: Fifth impression.
"The Diaries of Molesworth first appeared in 'Punch.'"--Title page verso.
BAC: British Art Center copy is from the "Fifth impression, 1954" (see title page verso). Bound in publisher's black cloth, with just jacket.
Subject Terms:: Education -- Anecdotes.
Education -- Humor.
Form/Genre:: Book jackets.
Contributors:: Parrish, Maxfield, 1870–1966, publisher.
Searle, Ronald, 1920–2011, illustrator.
William Clowes and Sons, printer.
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