The Military Orchid
by Brooke, Jocelyn
- Used
- fair
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fair
- Seller
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edinburgh, Midlothian, United Kingdom
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About This Item
London: The Bodley Head, 1948. First edition. Hardcover. Fair. Stephen Bone. Slim 8vo, tan cloth boards with titles on spine. 135pp with coloured frontis and other decorations by Stephen Bone. Tear to outer spine and some other edge wear. Very good + and clean inside. The first in the Orchid Trilogy. The Military Orchid is a comic masterpiece blending memoirs, satire and a love of the natural world in the search for one flower, Orchis Militaris, the military orchid.
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- Bookseller
- Bird's Books (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 2522
- Title
- The Military Orchid
- Author
- Brooke, Jocelyn
- Illustrator
- Stephen Bone
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fair
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First edition
- Publisher
- The Bodley Head
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1948
- Keywords
- 20th century fiction, british novel, queer literature, gay literature, KENT LITERATURE, AUTOBIOGRAPHY, 20TH CENTURY ENGLISH KENT
- Bookseller catalogs
- Fiction; Biography; Literature & Criticism;
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- Fair
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- Spine
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- Cloth
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- First Edition
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