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The Double Comfort Safari Club
by Smith, Alexander McCall
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- F/F/F
- ISBN 10
- 1408701057
- ISBN 13
- 9781408701058
- Seller
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Salisbury, Wiltshire, United Kingdom
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About This Item
HARDBACK "RARELY AVAILABLE OUTSIDE THE US," SHIPPED FROM THE UK* Edition: 1st.* Impression: 1st.* Date of Publication: 2010* Publisher: Little Brown.* Binding and cover condition: Red cloth, black title to spine. No bumps or rubs, no visible faults. FINE* Jacket condition: Colour illustrated dust wrapper. NOT PRICE CLIPPED, showing shelf price of £16.99. No shelf wear. FINE* Contents condition: PRIVATE COPY NOT EX-LIBRARY. Colour illustrated end papers. Clean, crisp, tight and bright with no reading wear, no marks to text, no tanning or other visible faults. FINE.* Illustrations: None.* Pages: 247 pp. text. iv pp. blank pags at rear.* Description: The Okavango makes Precious appreciate once again the beauty of her homeland: it is a paradise of teeming wildlife, majestic grasslands and sparkling water. However, it is also home to rival safari operators, fearsome crocodiles and disgruntled hippopotamuses. What's more, Mma Makutsi still does not have a date for her wedding to Phuti Radiphuti and is feeling rather tetchy herself. But Precious knows that with a little patience, just as the wide river will gently make its way round any obstacle, so will everything work out for the best in the end.* A FINE copy of the 1st. edition 1st. impression, with no visible faults.*
Synopsis
Alexander McCall Smith is also the author of the Isabel Dalhousie series, the Portuguese Irregular Verbs series, and the 44 Scotland Street series. He is professor emeritus of medical law at the University of Edinburgh and has served on many national and international bodies concerned with bioethics. He was born in what is now known as Zimbabwe and taught law at the University of Botswana. He lives in Scotland. Visit his website at www.alexandermccallsmith.com.
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- Bookseller
- Cocksparrow Books
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 4978
- Title
- The Double Comfort Safari Club
- Author
- Smith, Alexander McCall
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - F/F/F
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st. Edn, 1st. Imp.
- ISBN 10
- 1408701057
- ISBN 13
- 9781408701058
- Publisher
- Little, Brown
- Place of Publication
- London UK 256
- Date Published
- 2010-03-04
- Bookseller catalogs
- Crime, Thrillers & Mystery;
- Size
- 2.2 x 14.4 x 22.4 cm
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