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London: The Folio Society, 2012. Hardcover. pp. xv, 190. 8vo. Bound in black buckram over pictorial front board with gilt lettering to spine. Illustrated endpapers, colour illustrations. Near fine in near fine beige slipcase. Introduced by Jamila Gavin. Illustrated by Peter Bailey.
Sinopsis
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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- BISON BOOKS - ABAC/ILAB
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- Inventario del vendedor #
- 074915
- Título
- Smith
- Autor
- Garfield, Leon
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- Estado del libro
- Usado
- Cantidad disponible
- 1
- Editorial
- The Folio Society
- Lugar de publicación
- London
- Fecha de publicación
- 2012
- Palabras clave
- English Ficiton; 19th Century; London; Struggle;
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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...
- Fine
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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...
- Folio
- A folio usually indicates a large book size of 15" in height or larger when used in the context of a book description. Further,...
- 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....
