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Life Apart
by Thomas, Alan
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- F/F/F
- ISBN 10
- 0575000821
- ISBN 13
- 9780575000827
- Seller
-
Salisbury, Wiltshire, United Kingdom
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About This Item
HARDBACK "RARE," SHIPPED FROM THE UK* Edition: 1st.* Impression: 1st.* Date of Publication: 1968* Publisher: Gollancz.* Binding and cover condition: Blue cloth, Gilt title to spine. No bumps or rubs, no visible faults. AS NEW* Jacket condition: Blue paper dust wrapper with white text and frame. NOT PRICE CLIPPED, showing shelf price of 28/- Absolutely minimal shelf wear to top & bottom edge and to head & tail of spine. FINE* Contents condition: PRIVATE COPY NOT EX-LIBRARY. Clean, crisp, tight and bright with no reading wear, no marks to text, no tanning or foxing, no visible faults. FINE.* Illustrations: Two x b/w photos.* Pages: 160 pp. text. no index at rear.* Description: Alan Thomas was the author of a succession of distinguished novels which won him a reputation as a writer of sensitivity, integrity and sincerity. In this volume he revisits his boyhood in Edwardian England and his time as a young officer in the First World War. From Malvern College to Arras and then to Belgium at the end of the war, he relates many tales of the humours and miseries of trench life. The little-known story of the war?s finish is especially interesting. Here is a war-book written with nobility and warm humanity.* A FINE, AS NEW copy of the 1st./1st. with NO VISIBLE FAULTS.*
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Details
- Bookseller
- Cocksparrow Books
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1956
- Title
- Life Apart
- Author
- Thomas, Alan
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - F/F/F
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0575000821
- ISBN 13
- 9780575000827
- Publisher
- Gollancz. Littlehampton Book Services Ltd
- Place of Publication
- London Uk 160
- This edition first published
- 1968
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