The custard boys
New York: Farrar, Straus and Cudahy, 1961. Hardcover. 219p., very good stated first US edition in quarter cloth boards and unclipped, lightly edgeworn dj. The first UK edition is Young 3175*.
Debut novel set in Norfolk, UK during WWII. War games bewteen 13 and 14 year old boys and a special friendship between one of the boys and a Jewish-Austrian refugee. Filmed in 1962 as "Reach for Glory" and again as "Custard Boys" in 1979, compared to "Lord of the Flies"
Cat.No: 13615
Price: $45.00
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