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Smith
by Leon Garfield
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fine Condition/Fine
- Seller
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Market Rasen, Lincolnshire, United Kingdom
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About This Item
Folio Society, 2012. 1st Edition. Hardcover (in Slipcase). Fine Condition/Fine. Illustrator: Bailey, Peter. Book Jacket Is Usual Folio Slip Case. 8 Illustrations. Three Quarters Buckram With Illustrated Card Front With Gilt Detailing And Spine Titles. Illustrated End Papers (Map Of The Streets Of London) Item Type: Book. Illustrator: Bailey, Peter. Category: Children; Fiction. Please contact H4o Books if you require images or further information. Inventory No: 018549. .
Synopsis
Leon Garfield (1921–1996) was born and raised in the seaside town of Brighton, England. his father owned a series of businesses, and the family’s fortunes fluctuated wildly. Garfield enrolled in art school, left to work in an office, and in 1940 was drafted into the army, serving in the medical corps. After the war, he returned to London and worked as a biochemical technician. in 1948 he married Vivian Alcock, an artist who would later become a successful writer of children’s books, and it was she who encouraged him to write his first novel, Jack Holborn , which was published in 1964. in all, Garfield would write some fifty books, including a continuation of Charles Dickens’s Mystery of Edwin Drood and retellings of biblical and Shakespearian stories. Among his best-known books are Devil-in-the-Fog (1966, winner of The Guardian Children’s Fiction Prize), The God Beneath the Sea (1970, winner of the Carnegie medal), Bostock and Harris; or, The Night of the Comet (1979; forthcoming from The New York Review Children’s Collection), and John Diamond (1980, winner of the Whitbread Award).
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Details
- Bookseller
- H4o Books
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 018549
- Title
- Smith
- Author
- Leon Garfield
- Illustrator
- Bailey, Peter
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover (in Slipcase)
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine Condition
- Jacket Condition
- Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Folio Society
- Date Published
- 2012
- Keywords
- BZDB69 Folio Children; Fiction. Smith
- Bookseller catalogs
- Children; Fiction;
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
H4o Books
Biblio member since 2015
Market Rasen, Lincolnshire
About H4o Books
Online only dealership established in 2005. We have a varied general stock but specialise in Military and other History, Modern Fiction and Science Fiction, and Children's books
Glossary
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- Buckram
- A plain weave fabric normally made from cotton or linen which is stiffened with starch or other chemicals to cover the book...
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Slip Case
- A protective sleeve, often made of decorative cardboard or leather which houses a book. It is open on one end, so as to allow...
- 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...
- Fine
- A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
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