Truffle Hunt.
by SITWELL, SACHEVERELL:
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- Hardcover
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- Seller
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Dorchester, Dorset, United Kingdom
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About This Item
R. Hale 1953 (1st.).. Bound in original light blue cloth, with original dustwrapper. In very good condition. Slight bump head of front board. Inside on endpapers & fore edges a little foxed, else generally clean & tight. (dw:designed by I.Hawkins). Many photo.plates. 310pp. The first half of the book consists of over 40 short essays, which were considered "as something unique in newspaper journalism" when they were first published in The Sunday Times. The rest is a continuation in the same style and manner ( they incl.among others an essay on Japanese Gardens, on a German 18th.doll's house/ and a postcript to his well-known book on Spain).
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- Bookseller
- The Antique Map & Bookshop (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 89818
- Title
- Truffle Hunt.
- Author
- SITWELL, SACHEVERELL:
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- R. Hale 1953 (1st.).
- Keywords
- Literature SITWELL,SACHEVERELL: Truffle Hunt newspaper journalism essays R.Hale 1953 Hawkins
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The Antique Map & Bookshop was established in 1976 and has been in Puddletown since 1978. PUDDLETOWN is situated just outside DORCHESTER in the county of DORSET, on the A35 to BOURNEMOUTH. The village has a by-pass now which means there is easy access to the village and ample space for parking. Our shop is directly on the main road through the village.
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- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
- Dustwrapper
- Also known as book jacket, dust cover, or dust wrapper, a dust jacket is a protective and decorative cover for a book that is...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Foxed
- Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.