Spirit of Place: Letters and Essays on Travel.
by DURRELL, LAWRENCE:
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Dorchester, Dorset, United Kingdom
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About This Item
Faber and Faber. London. 1969 1st edition.. Size 9 x 6 inches. In orange cloth covers with gilt to spine. With dustwrapper. In good condition with good dustwrapper (dw; Wrapper darkened and rubbed at ends. Chip head of spine. Not price clipped). A few minor marks on front endpaper & on fore edge. Else a clean and tight copy. 430pp. Index Contains 8 b/w plates depicting artwork created by Oscar Epfs (Durrell's pseudonym as a painter). His travels range from Greece and England to Egypt, Cyprus and France.
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- Bookseller
- The Antique Map & Bookshop (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 95028
- Title
- Spirit of Place: Letters and Essays on Travel.
- Author
- DURRELL, LAWRENCE:
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Faber and Faber. London. 1969 1st edition.
- Keywords
- Literature LAWRENCE DURRELL, Novel dustwrapper, first edition Spirit of Place: Letters and Essays on Travel.
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The Antique Map & Bookshop was established in 1976 and has been in Puddletown since 1978. PUDDLETOWN is situated just outside DORCHESTER in the county of DORSET, on the A35 to BOURNEMOUTH. The village has a by-pass now which means there is easy access to the village and ample space for parking. Our shop is directly on the main road through the village.
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