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Days from a Different World: A Memoir of Childhood
by Simpson, John
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- ACC/GD+/GD+
- ISBN 10
- 1405050047
- ISBN 13
- 9781405050043
- Seller
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Salisbury, Wiltshire, United Kingdom
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About This Item
Macmillan. First Edition. Hardcover. ACC/GD+/GD+. 23.4 x 16.2 x 4.2 cm. Box 39 HARDBACK SHIPPED FROM THE UK* Edition: 1st. * Impression: 1st. 1.3.5.7.9.10.8.6.4.2.* Date of Publication: 2005* Publisher: MacMillan.* Binding and cover condition: White cloth, Gilt title to spine. No bumps. Some rubs to head and tail of spine and to edges, slight spine lean. GOOD* Jacket condition:black & White photo-cover in protective library jacket & with label to spine. NOT PRICE CLIPPED, showing shelf price of £18.99. Slight shelf wear to head & tail of spine. GOOD* Contents condition: Ex-library withdrawn copy. Clean and bright with very little reading wear, usual stamps and signs of adhesive to prelims, seems very little read but severe stains to ten pages from page 150 onwards. ACCEPTABLE* Illustrations: Some b/w photos within the text.* Pages: 413 pp. text. No Index at rear.* Description: A journey through England in the late 1940s with broken marriages, unfulfilled lives, births and deaths. This is not a mere exercise in nostalgia, rather it is a journey through the England of the late 1940s and 1950s in all its shabby wonder and it will also tell the somewhat strange and often deeply painful story of John Simpsons family. Candid, beautifully written and touching, it will enchant all those who read it.* A GOOD copy reduced by some page stains to acceptable.*
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- Bookseller
- Cocksparrow Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 865
- Title
- Days from a Different World: A Memoir of Childhood
- Author
- Simpson, John
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - ACC/GD+/GD+
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 1405050047
- ISBN 13
- 9781405050043
- Publisher
- Macmillan
- Place of Publication
- London
- This edition first published
- January 2005
- Pages
- 412
- Size
- 23.4 x 16.2 x 4.2 cm
- X weight
- g
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