The Road to Little Dribbling: More Notes from a Small Island (Bryson)
by Bryson, Bill
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- VG++/VG/VG+
- ISBN 10
- 0857522345
- ISBN 13
- 9780857522344
- Seller
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Salisbury, Wiltshire, United Kingdom
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About This Item
HARDBACK, SHIPPED FROM THE UK* Edn: 1st.* Imp: 13th.* Date of Publication: 2015* Publisher: Doubleday.* Binding and cover condition: Blue cloth, gilt title to spine. No bumps or rubs, minimal shelf wear to upper & lower edges and to head and tail of spine. VG* Jacket condition: Colour illustrated dust wrapper showing the chalk cliffs at Cuckmere Haven. NOT PRICE CLIPPED, showing shelf price of £20.00. Slight shelf wear to top & bottom edges and to head & tail of spine. Now in clear protective wrapper. VG+* Contents condition: PRIVATE COPY NOT EX-LIBRARY. Coloured end papers (bright red). Clean, crisp, tight and bright with no reading wear, no marks to text, very slight marks to top & fore-edge, otherwise no visible faults. VG++.* Illustrations: A number of small b/w line drawings at chapter headings.* Pages: 381 pp. text. ix pp. acknowledgements, author?s notes & blank pages at rear.* Description: Twenty years ago, Bill Bryson went on a trip around Britain to celebrate the green and kindly island that had become his adopted country. The hilarious book that resulted, Notes from a Small Island, was taken to the nation?s heart and became the bestselling travel book ever, and was also voted in a BBC poll the book that best represents Britain. Now, to mark the twentieth anniversary of that modern classic, Bryson makes a brand-new journey round Britain to see what has changed.* A NEAR FINE text copy of the 1st/13th. with some minor faults in a VG+ protected dust jacket.*
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- Bookseller
- Cocksparrow Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 2764
- Title
- The Road to Little Dribbling: More Notes from a Small Island (Bryson)
- Author
- Bryson, Bill
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - VG++/VG/VG+
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 12th.Impression. 2015
- ISBN 10
- 0857522345
- ISBN 13
- 9780857522344
- Publisher
- Doubleday
- Place of Publication
- London UK 390
- Date Published
- 2015-10-08
- Size
- 16.2 x 3.5 x 24 cm
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