Description

Little, Brown, and Company, 1934. Hardcover, 126 pp. 1934 Reprint - Holliday edition "For Your Holiday Enjoyment" Good in acceptable+ dust jacket. Tan cloth covered boards with blue lettering on front and spine. Light bumping, scuffing and aging to covers. Binding tight. Pages lightly aged but otherwise unmarked. Dust jacket has several 1" or less chips and tears (most of which have been repaired neatly with clear tape on the backside of the jacket). Moderate overall scuffing, fading, aging and soiling to jacket as well. NOT price clipped. Now in an archival-quality (removable) Brodart Cover. NOT Ex-Library. NO remainder marks. [From jacket flaps] As a Junior Master, Mr. Chipping - his boys called him Chips! - came to Broofield, an English school, in 1870 and there he remained for sixty-three years, growing less shy and more mellow; growing more tolerant, more humorous, and always more beloved by the boys he formed. A schoolmaster for nearly three-quarters of a century, Mr. Chips summed up in his person an abiding loyalty for England; a nostalgic and pathetic loyalty for Kathie, the wife who was with him so short a time; an intelligent loyalty for the classics he taught, and, aboveall, a crusty, dryly amusing, and lifelong loyalty to the School which was his world. In the lives of most of us there is probably one such elder, usually a teacher, whose constancy and understanding, whose humor and wisdom, we never forget. "Good-bye, Mr. Chips" is a story to be read and reread, a story to be widely discussed and deeply treasured.