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BLUE SHOES AND HAPPINESS.** [Author SIGNED copy.**]

BLUE SHOES AND HAPPINESS.** [Author SIGNED copy.**]

BLUE SHOES AND HAPPINESS.** [Author SIGNED copy.**]
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BLUE SHOES AND HAPPINESS.** [Author SIGNED copy.**]

by SMITH**, ALEXANDER McCALL:

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1904598633
ISBN 13
9781904598633
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UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,SIGNED,1st edn.FINE+/FINE+.No owner inscrptn,but author's neat,handwritten,black ink signature - without dedication - to title page,dw/dj unclipped - absence of publisher's price.Usually indicates an export copy,which generally precedes the UK trade 1st edn's release.Bright,crisp,clean colour pictorial illustrated dw/dj; with negligible shelf-wear and creasing to edges and corners - no nicks or tears present.Top+fore-edges bright and clean; contents bright,tight and pristine - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners - an unread copy? Bright,crisp,clean,sharp-cornered,publisher's original, plain black cloth boards with bright,crisp,stamped gilt letters to spine/ backstrip and immaculate b/w & brown/white decorated endpapers.UK, slim 8vo HB+dw/dj,1-233pp [paginated] comprising 17 chapters; plus critics' reviews to half-title page,author SIGNED title page,and a dedication.
Eagerly awaited next instalment of the No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency we are once again transported to Gaborone,capital of Botswana,to enter the world of Precious Ramotswe and her friends.
In 'Blue Shoes and Happiness',Mma Ramotswe has many new challenges to face: a cobra trapped in her small office at Tlokweng Road Speedy Motors,a difficult case of blackmail to solve and - to the astonishment and amusement of her friends - a diet to keep to.
And she is bemused by the less traditional behaviour of her assistant, Grace Makutsi.The graduate of the Botswana Secretarial College is the epitome of the modern woman with feminist views and a taste for fashionable footwear.But will her fiance,Phuti Radiphuti,appreciate Mma Makutsi's progressive ways?
Undaunted,Mma Ramotswe deals with these concerns with her usual resourcefulness and unerring intuition.And all the while,she can take comfort from the small things in life; the simple and frequent pleasures of tea-drinking; the heartbreaking beauty of the African landscape; and from a deep pride in a country where the small kindnesses and civilities still count for so much.
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Blue Shoes and Happiness is the seventh in The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency series of novels by Alexander McCall Smith, set in Gaborone, Botswana, and featuring the Motswana protagonist Precious Ramotswe.

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Title
BLUE SHOES AND HAPPINESS.** [Author SIGNED copy.**]
Author
SMITH**, ALEXANDER McCALL:
Book Condition
Used - FINE+.
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Edition
UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,SIGNED,1st edn.
Binding
Hardcover
ISBN 10
1904598633
ISBN 13
9781904598633
Publisher
SCOTLAND.EDINBURGH.POLYGON,2006.
Place of Publication
Edinburgh
This edition first published
2006
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