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The Man in Our Lives
by GUTHRIE, John [name on dust jacket:] (John Brodie)
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good+
- Seller
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Seattle, Washington, United States
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About This Item
London: Neville Spearman, 1955. Early Reprint. Hardcover with Dust Jacket. Very Good/Very Good+. EB. Small 8vo. Pp. ix, 100. Introduction by Alan W. Mitchell.Afterword by Nigel Palethorpe. Frontis. photo portrait of the author. Illustrated with reproductions of family photos. Bound in black cloth with gilt lettering stamped on spine. Boards a tad splayed; offsetting to endpapers. A handsome copy in the illustrated dust jacket with spine faded, price of 7/6 intact on front flap. First published 1946, this brief memoir by the New Zealand author was published posthumously. A Rhodes Scholar, a rugby injury led to a leg amputation; nevertheless, Guthrie served in WWII with distinction. The accomplished dust jacket illustration that graces this edition, by "EB," is a spare landscape-seascape done in a modernistic style of the era.
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- Bookseller
- Long Brothers Fine and Rare Books, ABAA
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 6395
- Title
- The Man in Our Lives
- Author
- GUTHRIE, John [name on dust jacket:] (John Brodie)
- Illustrator
- EB
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover with Dust Jacket
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good+
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Early Reprint
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Neville Spearman
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1955
- Bookseller catalogs
- South Seas;
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About the Seller
Long Brothers Fine and Rare Books, ABAA
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Seattle, Washington
About Long Brothers Fine and Rare Books, ABAA
Long Brothers Fine and Rare Books was established in 1996 as a natural progression of proprietor Jeffrey Long's historical and bibliophilic interests. We are located in West Seattle and can be visited by appointment only.
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