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The Goose Cathedral
by Brooke, Jocelyn
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Good
- Seller
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edinburgh, Midlothian, United Kingdom
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About This Item
London: The Bodley Head, 1950. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. Julian Trevelyan. 8vo, coloured illustrated dust jacket by Julian Trevelyan over green boards with gilt titles on spine. Some chipping / tears to edges of price clipped dust jacket. 186pp. Part 3 of the Orchid Trilogy. Part fiction and part autobiography, these reminiscences ‘cover loosely linked periods in the author’s childhood and later life…. here the theme is woven about the startling pseudo - Gothic lifeboat station at Folkestone, which, with its grotesque gaggle of geese, became known as the The Goose Cathedral.’ Originally from the library at a Royal Air Force station with a single stamp on the blind title page & with a personal pictorial bookplate on the front endpaper.
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- Bookseller
- Bird's Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 2518
- Title
- The Goose Cathedral
- Author
- Brooke, Jocelyn
- Illustrator
- Julian Trevelyan
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First edition
- Publisher
- The Bodley Head
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1950
- Keywords
- 20th century fiction, british novel, autobiographical novel, queer literature, gay literature, soldier
- Bookseller catalogs
- Fiction; Biography; Literature & Criticism;
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- Gilt
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- Chipping
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