HARDBACK SHIPPED FROM THE UK* Edition: 1st.* Imp: 1st.* Date of Publication: 1983* Publisher: Constable.* Binding and cover condition: Black cloth, grey spine label with gilt title to spine. No bumps or rubs, minimal shelf wear & a few very slight marks. VG+* Jacket condition: Colour photo-illustrated dust wrapper showing the author and his wife Katie near the Langdale Pikes now in protected jacket. PRICE NOT PRICE CLIPPED showing shelf price of £7.95 net. Absolutely minimal shelf wear to top & bottom edges and to head & tail of spine. VG+* Contents condition: PRIVATE COPY NOT EX-LIBRARY. Dove grey end papers & top edge coloured red. Clean, crisp, tight and bright with no reading wear, one or two very slight marks to text, no tanning, minimal age. VG+.* Illustrations: B/w photos and line drawn maps within text throughout.* Pages: 319 pp. text.* Description: Tapping a seemingly inexhaustible seam of knowledge of natural history, archaeology and folklore, and accompanied on the way by like-minded authors of yesterday, John Hillaby blends his allusions to the past with comments on topical, commonplace things to create a confection which is recognisably and unmistakeably his own. He both encourages and inspires us, for (as one critic put it) he writes with the beautiful precision of an engraver.* A NEAR FINE copy of the 1st/1st with minor age & wear. Now in protected dust jacket.*

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Bookseller: Cocksparrow Books (GB)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 1825
Title: Journey Home (Travel Literature)
Author: Hillaby, Mr John
Format/Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Used - VG+/VG+/VG++
Quantity Available: 1
Edition: 1st. Edn, 1st. Imp.
ISBN 10: 0094650500
ISBN 13: 9780094650503
Publisher: Constable
Place of Publication: London UK 321
Date Published: 1983-10-10
Size: 22.2 x 15.2 x 1.8 cm

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