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The Captain and the Glory: an entertainment
by Eggers., David
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- F/F/F
- ISBN 10
- 0241445957
- ISBN 13
- 9780241445952
- Seller
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Salisbury, Wiltshire, United Kingdom
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About This Item
Hamish Hamilton, 2019-01-01. 1st Edn. 1st Imp.. Hardcover. F/F/F. Box 27 HARDBACK ""AS NEW,"" SHIPPED FROM THE UK* Edition: 1st.* Impression: 1st. ""001"".* Date: 2019.* Pub: Hamish Hamilton for Penguin.* Binding and cover condition: Black cloth covered boards with metallic gilt title to spine, none to face. No bumps or rubs. No visible faults. FINE.* Jacket condition: Colour-illustrated jacket on an orange background with black and white titles showing a back view of a tubby captain in black blue and yellow. Not price clipped showing a shelf price of £9.99. No shelf wear or marks. FINE.* Contents condition: Clean, crisp, tight and bright with no reading wear, no marks to text. Coloured end papers (orange), no tanning or other visible faults. No marks to edges. FINE.* Illustrations: B/w line drawings within text.* Pages: 114 pp. text. viii pp. acknowledgements & blank pages at rear.* Description: The grand ship Glory has been skilfully captained for years, but when its well-loved old skipper decides to step down, a new leader thrusts himself forward and a fresh era begins. The new captain is vulgar, bumbling and inexplicably confident. With no knowledge of nautical navigation or maritime law ? nor even, as he has repeatedly remarked, a particular liking for boats ? he solemnly swears to shake thigs up. A funny, macabre, and inspired modern fable about a boat, its captain and his come-upance.* A NEAR FINE copy of the 1st./1st. thus with no visible faults, AS NEW.* 0
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- Bookseller
- Cocksparrow Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 9916
- Title
- The Captain and the Glory: an entertainment
- Author
- Eggers., David
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - F/F/F
- Edition
- 1st Edn. 1st Imp.
- ISBN 10
- 0241445957
- ISBN 13
- 9780241445952
- Publisher
- Hamish Hamilton
- Date Published
- 2019-01-01
- Pages
- 122
- X weight
- g
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