The Dust Diaries by Owen Sheers - 2004

Faber & Faber Ltd, 2004. Hardcover. Good. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

Hardback. Very Good.

Faber & Faber, Limited. Used - Good. Ships from the UK. Used book that is in clean, average condition without any missing pages.

Faber & Faber, Limited. Used - Very Good. Ships from the UK. Former library book; may include library markings. Used book that is in excellent condition. May show signs of wear or have minor defects.

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Faber & Faber, 2004-02-05. Hardcover. Good/Very Good Jacket. 19 to 25 cm tall, Octavo, (8vo). Posted within 1 working day. 1st class tracked post to the UK, Airmail tracked worldwide. Robust recyclable packaging.

Faber & Faber Ltd, 2004-03. Hardcover. Good.

Faber & Faber Ltd, 2004. UK edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Very Good/Near Fine. Very good in near fine dust jacket. SIGNED and inscribed 'To Kathy- best wishes' by the author on the title page. 1st UK edition, 1st printing, complete numberline. Dust jacket has faint edgewear. Book has toning to the edges of the pageblock. A Wales Book of the Year also shortlisted for the Ondaatje Prize by the Vogue Young Writer's Award-, Eric Gregory Award-, Somerset Maugham Award-, Hospital Club Creative Award-, Amnesty International Freedom of Expression Award-, and Hay Medal for Poetry-winning author of 'Resistance' and 'I Saw A Man'. Where possible, all books come with dust jacket in a clear protective plastic sleeve, sealed in a ziplock bag, wrapped in bubble wrap, shipped in a box.

(London: Faber and Faber, 2004) 0571210163. 8vo; original black boards; laminated pictorial dustwrapper; pp. (x) + 310; portrait; map. Slight curl to top edge of dustwrapper; earlier owner's name signed on front free endpaper. Near fine condition. "When Owen Sheers discovers a book in his father's study he stumbles upon the life of an obscure relative: Arthur Cripps, lyric poet and maverick missionary to Rhodesia. Compelled by the description of Cripps' extraordinary life in Africa, Sheers embarks on a journey through contemporary Zimbabwe in an attempt to better understand his ancestor's devotion to the country and its people and the dramatic, often bloody, differences that echo across the years. Arriving in Africa at the turn of the last century, Cripps establishes his own mission at Maronda Mashanu; the neighbouring European community soon grow suspicious of Cripps' unorthodox methods, and conflict with the British South Africa Company ensues. ... The Dust Diaries is a… Read More

Faber and Faber. Hardback. First edition. 310pp. Part imaginative fiction and part biogrpahy, Owen Sheers on the life of his ancestor Arthur Shearly Cripps, an English Anglican priest, missionary, short story writer and poet who spent most of his life in Southern Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe). Black boards with yellow titles to spine has faint white marks. Closed page edges are very tanned but text is clean. Dust jacket has some uneven sunning and a couple of coffee type splashes to the reverse Good+, sound copy in like dust jacket . Hardback. 2004.