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Europe in the Looking-Glass. Reflections of a Motor Drive from Grimsby to Athens.
by ROBERT BYRON
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/No Jacket
- Seller
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London, United Kingdom
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About This Item
George Routledge & Sons Ltd., London, 1926. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First Edition (first printing). 8vo. 229pp. Red smooth-weave cloth lettered in gold at the spine. The backstrip faded and with a touch of much lighter uneven fading to the margins of the rear board and a small area of light soiling to the base of the upper board. Top edge dust soiled and with a touch of spotting, also to the fore edge and, very lightly, to half a dozen preliminary leaves. A very good copy. No dust wrapper. The author's first book, a splendid travelogue with the increasingly relevant closing lines: "The world seemed larger now than it had done in 1909. Private school, public school, university; intermittent trips abroad, intermittent Wiltshire; and last of all this tour, had all intervened. Leaning forward to warm my hands over the logs, I experienced a new price of race: the pride of being, as well as English, European"..
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- Bookseller
- Clearwater Books
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- ARC92610
- Title
- Europe in the Looking-Glass. Reflections of a Motor Drive from Grimsby to Athens.
- Author
- ROBERT BYRON
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Publisher
- George Routledge & Sons Ltd., London
- Date Published
- 1926
- Bookseller catalogs
- Travel;
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- Soiled
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- Cloth
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- Spine
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