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Beryl Goes Wild
by Illustrator) (Author Simmons Jane
- Used
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- G++/F/VG++
- ISBN 10
- 1846166209
- ISBN 13
- 9781846166204
- Seller
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Salisbury, Wiltshire, United Kingdom
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About This Item
HARDBACK "AUTHOR SIGNED," SHIPPED FROM THE UK* Edition: 1st.* Imp: 1st. Full number line.* Date of Publication: 2008* Publisher: Orchard Books.* Binding and cover condition: Dark blue cloth, gilt title to spine and gilt vignette to face. No bumps or rubs, no visible faults. FINE.* Jacket condition: Colour illustrated dust wrapper showing Beryl the Pig. NOT PRICE CLIPPED, giving a shelf price of £8.99. Absolutely minimal shelf wear to head of spine, now in un-attached clear protective jacket. FINE* Contents condition: Author signed to title page. Ex-library copy with usual stamps and labels. Clean, crisp, tight and bright with no reading wear, no marks to text but slight colouration to margins & to top and fore edges. VG.* Illustrations: Numerous b/w hand drawn illustrations throughout.* Pages: 222 pp. text. ii pp. blank pages at rear.* Description: When Beryl escapes from the lorry taking her to the abattoir, she finds a new and rather frightening world. A world of wild pigs, where she makes a friend called Amber, meets the Sisterhood of the Mystic Boar and goes on an epic journey - but will she find a home?* A NEAR VG AUTHOR SIGNED, ex-library copy of the 1st/1st fnl, now in clear protective dust jacket.*
Synopsis
It is a mighty force that of mere chance, absolutely irresistible yet manifesting itself often in delicate forms such for instance as the charm, true or illusory, of a human being' In Flora de Barral, the slender, dreamy, morbidly charming daughter of a parvenu financier, Conrad creates his most complex heroine and one of his most unrelenting, but not unhopeful, novels of emotional isolation. Neglected by her bankrupt father and rejected by her governess, drifting into abstraction and despair, Flora takes refuge at sea on Captain Anthony's ship, where tragedy and her transformation begin. When published in 1913, Chance was an immediate success. Arnold Bennett wrote that 'this is a discouraging book for a writer because he damn well knows he can't write as well as this'; while an anonymous reviewer in Punch declared that 'the whole thing is much nearer wizardry than workmanship'.
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- Seller
- Cocksparrow Books
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- Seller's Inventory #
- 295
- Title
- Beryl Goes Wild
- Author
- Illustrator) (Author Simmons Jane
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - G++/F/VG++
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st. Edn, 1st. Imp. FNL.
- ISBN 10
- 1846166209
- ISBN 13
- 9781846166204
- Publisher
- Orchard Books
- Place of Publication
- Lonodon UK 224
- Date Published
- 2008-05-08
- Size
- 14.7 x 2.2 x 18.9 cm
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