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Bibliographic Detail
Publisher Createspace Independent Pub
Publication date May 1, 2015
Pages 224
Binding Paperback
Book category Adult Fiction
ISBN-13 9781511998352
ISBN-10 1511998350
Dimensions 0.51 by 6 by 9 in.
Original list price $9.99
Summaries and Reviews
Amazon.com description: Product Description: Noël had a poetry stall, where you could pay twopence and get a piece of poetry and a sweet wrapped up in it. We chose sugar almonds, because they are not so sticky. H. O.'s stall was to be sweets, if he promised on his word of honour as a Bastable only to eat one of each kind. Dicky wished to have a stall for mechanical toys and parts of clocks. He has a great many parts of clocks, but the only mechanical toy was his clockwork engine, that was broken ages ago, so he had to give it up, and he couldn't think of anything else. So he settled to help Oswald, and keep an eye on H. O. Oswald's stall was meant to be a stall for really useful things, but in the end it was just a lumber stall for the things other people did not want. But he did not mind, because the others agreed he should have the entire selling of the Goat, and he racked his young brains to think how to sell it in the most interesting and unusual way. And at last he saw how, and he said: 'He shall be a lottery, and we'll make people take tickets, and then draw a secret number out of a hat, and whoever gets the right number gets the Goat. I wish it was me.' 'We ought to advertise it, though,' Dicky said. 'Have handbills printed, and send out sandwich-men.' Oswald inquired at the printers in Greenwich, and handbills were an awful price, and sandwich-men a luxury far beyond our means. So he went home sadly; and then Alice thought of the printing-press. We got it out, and cleaned it where the ink had been upset into it, and mended the broken parts as well as we could, and got some more printers' ink, and wrote the circular and printed it. It was:

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Paperback
Book cover for 9781490525907 Book cover for 9781500363512 Book cover for 9781502883407 Book cover for 9781511998352 Book cover for 9781514889022
 
from Createspace Independent Pub (July 8, 2015)
9781514889022 | details & prices | 140 pages | 6.00 × 9.00 × 0.32 in. | List price $7.49
About: This happened a very little time after we left our humble home in Lewisham, and went to live at the Blackheath house of our Indian uncle, which was replete with every modern convenience, and had a big garden and a great many greenhouses.
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from Createspace Independent Pub (May 1, 2015); titled "Oswald Bastable and Others,"
9781511998352 | details & prices | 224 pages | 6.00 × 9.00 × 0.51 in. | List price $9.99
This edition also contains Oswald Bastable And Others, Oswald Bastable and Others
About: Noël had a poetry stall, where you could pay twopence and get a piece of poetry and a sweet wrapped up in it.
from Createspace Independent Pub (October 18, 2014)
9781502883407 | details & prices | 172 pages | 7.44 × 9.69 × 0.39 in. | List price $9.99
About: Oswald Bastable and Others
from Createspace Independent Pub (July 8, 2014)
9781500363512 | details & prices | 126 pages | 6.00 × 9.00 × 0.29 in. | List price $7.49
About: This happened a very little time after we left our humble home in Lewisham, and went to live at the Blackheath house of our Indian uncle, which was replete with every modern convenience, and had a big garden and a great many greenhouses.
from Createspace Independent Pub (June 24, 2013)
9781490525907 | details & prices | 126 pages | 6.00 × 9.00 × 0.29 in. | 0.54 lbs | List price $7.49

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