1967 A Boy Like Walt

Description

First Edition, Original Binding, Publishers' Original Binding, Scarce, Signed, With Dustwrapper

First US edition, in the publisher's original cloth binding, with the original, unclipped dust wrapper.

First edition was published in the UK in the same year as the first US edition.

Signed to the front endpaper, 'To Julie, With much love Dorothy' dated August '67.

Written by English author, Dorothy Clewes, who is most known for her works of children's fiction including 'The Adventure of the Blue Admiral' and the Hadley Family adventures.

'A Boy Like Walt' follows the story of Walt Graham, a boy on the edge of trouble, who falls in with a motorcycle gang in London. The novel explores the parental role in this scenario, with shocked and righteous parents holding more guilt than their children.