HARDBACK, ?UNCOMMON,? SHIPPED FROM THE UK* Edn: 1st. Thus.* Date of Publication: 1980* Publisher: Moonraker Press.* Binding and cover condition: Orange/brown cloth, gilt title to spine. No bumps or rubs, minimal shelf wear to head and tail of spine. FINE* Jacket condition: Monochrome (brown) photo-illustrated dust wrapper on ochre ground, spine faded, white titles to face and spine. NOT PRICE CLIPPED, showing a shelf price of £5.95. Slight, shelf wear to top & bottom edges and to head & tail of spine. VG* Contents condition: PRIVATE COPY NOT EX-LIBRARY. Clean, crisp, tight and bright with no reading wear, no marks to text, slight marks to top and fore edge and to end papers, otherwise no visible faults. VG.* Illustrations: A number of full-page b/w photos.* Pages: 99 pp. text. vii pp., chronology, index & blank pages at rear.* Description: This is the story of two people who were almost indivisiby one. A.J.Coles, the creator, and Jan Stewer the creation. The whole of the West Country knew Jan Stewer who was, in the words of John Trewin, ?one of the most relishing dialect humorists the regions of Britain have ever produced.? Although ?Jan Stewer?s? Devonshire-dialect narratives appeared regularly in Exeter newspapers for 64 years, his creator was known far beyond the boundaries of the West Country between 1902 and 1938. He published seven books (all of them reprinted during the post-war years), and in 1936 he appeared in the leading role of his own play, Barnet?s Folly at the Haymarket Theatre, London.* A NEAR VG+ text copy of the 1st/1st with some minor faults in a VG dust jacket.*

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Bookseller: Cocksparrow Books (GB)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 1779
Title: Jan Stewer: A West Country Biography
Author: Cock, Douglas J
Format/Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Used - VG/F/VG
Quantity Available: 1
Edition: 1st Thus.
ISBN 10: 0239001923
ISBN 13: 9780239001924
Publisher: Moonraker Press
Place of Publication: Bradford On Avon, UK. 106
Date Published: 1980-06-26

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