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The Long Trail: Kipling Round the World
by Macdonald, Meryl
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- AS NEW/AS NEW/FINE
- ISBN 10
- 0953632407
- ISBN 13
- 9780953632404
- Seller
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About This Item
HARDBACK SHIPPED FROM THE UK* Edition: 1st.* Impression: 1st.* Date of Publication: 1999* Publisher: Tideway House, Gazelle Book Services.* Binding and cover condition: Dark Blue cloth, Gilt title to spine. No bumps or rubs, no visible faults. AS NEW.* Jacket condition: colour Photo Cover, NOT PRICE CLIPPED, showing shelf price of £16.95. Minimal shelf wear to top & bottom edge and to head & tail of spine. NR FINE* Contents condition: PRIVATE COPY NOT EX-LIBRARY. Clean, crisp, tight and bright with no reading wear, no marks to text, no visible faults. AS NEW* Illustrations: 2 X 8pp blocks of b/w photos.* Pages: 245 pp. text. xvi pp. Epitaph & indices at rear.* Description: So what made Kipling 'tick'? His Celtic roots, his early Indian childhood -- or a clash between both cultures? This unusual non-literary biography discloses the man behind the name and its 'received' image; reveals why he wrote so compellingly about the sea and ships; had a love affair with steam and motive power, becoming a pioneer motorist at the turn of the century. From the passenger seat -- he never drove himself -- he discovered England, 'the most wonderful of all foreign countries'..* An AS NEW copy of the First Edition only reduced to NEAR FINE by crease to lower back edge of dust jacket.*
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- Bookseller
- Cocksparrow Books
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1996
- Title
- The Long Trail: Kipling Round the World
- Author
- Macdonald, Meryl
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- New
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st. Edn. 1st. Imp.
- ISBN 10
- 0953632407
- ISBN 13
- 9780953632404
- Publisher
- Tideway House
- Place of Publication
- Bristol UK 304
- This edition first published
- 2000
- Size
- 23.2 x 16.2 x 3 cm
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