DEAR SHADOWS Portraits from Memory
de Wain, John (edited by)
- Usado
- Tapa dura
- First
- Estado
- Fine in Fine dust jacket
- ISBN 10
- 0719542847
- ISBN 13
- 9780719542848
- Librería
-
Carmarthen, United Kingdom
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Sobre este artículo
London: John Murray. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 1986. First Edition. Hardcover. 0719542847 . 186pp. A richly flavoured and delightful book in which the author makes pen portraits of people no longer living who left a deep impression on him at different periods of his life. They include a black American jazz trumpeter living in Paris; a German farmer working a Welsh mountain smallholding: a young actor later to become a world megastar; a theatrical landlady in Stratford-upon- Avon; A brilliant Oxford Don etc. These inevitably had an influence on the works of the Author through 3 decades of writing. Pictorial dustwrap NOT PRICE CLIPPED, no marks. Clean blue boards with bright gilt titling to spine. NO INSCRIPTIONS. CLEAN TIGHT AND BRIGHT.; 105210; 8vo .
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Detalles
- Librería
- Sue Lloyd-Davies Books
(GB)
- Inventario del vendedor #
- 105210
- Título
- DEAR SHADOWS Portraits from Memory
- Autor
- Wain, John (edited by)
- Formato/Encuadernación
- Tapa dura
- Estado del libro
- Usado - Fine in Fine dust jacket
- Edición
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0719542847
- ISBN 13
- 9780719542848
- Editorial
- John Murray
- Lugar de publicación
- London
- Fecha de publicación
- 1986
- Palabras clave
- 0719542847, Music, Black American Jazz Trumpeter, Paris, France, Germany, Theatre, Music, Musician
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Sue Lloyd-Davies Books
Miembro de Biblio desde 2006
Carmarthen
Sobre Sue Lloyd-Davies Books
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- Gilt
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