The Dog at Clambercrown
by Brooke, Jocelyn
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good +/Fair
- Seller
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edinburgh, Midlothian, United Kingdom
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About This Item
London: The Bodley Head, 1955. First edition. Hardcover. Good +/Fair. 8vo, coloured illustrated dust jacket over purple boards with gilt titles on spine. Lower part of dust jacket at spine absent, boards sunned here. 256pp with portrait frontis of author. Previous owner’s name handwritten on front endpaper. ’An Excursion’. This describes two journeys; a visit to Enna, Sicily, in the fifties and his quest to see Clambercrown in a remote part of the Kent countryside as a youth.
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- Bookseller
- Bird's Books (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 2515
- Title
- The Dog at Clambercrown
- Author
- Brooke, Jocelyn
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good +
- Jacket Condition
- Fair
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First edition
- Publisher
- The Bodley Head
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1955
- Keywords
- adolescent, travelogue, undiscovered country, coming of age, queer literature, gay literature
- Bookseller catalogs
- Fiction;
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- Sunned
- Damage done to a book cover or dust jacket caused by exposure to direct sunlight. Very strong fluorescent light can cause slight...
- First Edition
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- Spine
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- Jacket
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- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...