Where Kingcups Grew: Stories of a Westcountry Childhood
by Wilshire, Lewis Ibrahim, Jenny
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- F/VG+ No DJ as issued.
- ISBN 10
- 1874092818
- ISBN 13
- 9781874092810
- Seller
-
Salisbury, Wiltshire, United Kingdom
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
HARDBACK SHIPPED FROM THE UK* Edition: 1st.* Impression: 1st.* Date of Publication: 2002* Publisher: Broadcast Books* Binding and cover condition: Colour illustrated laminated cover. Corners slightly bumped and with slight shelf wear. VG* Jacket condition: No Dust Jacket as issued.* Contents condition: PRIVATE COPY NOT EX-LIBRARY, clean, crisp, tight and bright. No inscriptions or annotations, FINE* Illustrations: B/w drawings & photos within text throughout.* Pages: 191 pp. text. ii pp. Advertisements, no index.* Description: One of the leading chroniclers of the Westcountry, through many books, newspaper articles and broadcasts on BBC Radio Bristol, Lewis Wilshire?s graceful and intelligent writings have charmed his readers for well over half a century. Here is the author?s personal selection of stories about his childhood. Detailed here with humour and great affection are a host of eccentric relations and childhood companions, in a now lost landscape of Methodism and hardship amid the stone-walled meadows where kingcups once grew. A NEAR FINE copy of the 1st./1st. in slightly bumped boards.
Reviews
(Log in or Create an Account first!)
Details
- Bookseller
- Cocksparrow Books (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 4625
- Title
- Where Kingcups Grew: Stories of a Westcountry Childhood
- Author
- Wilshire, Lewis Ibrahim, Jenny
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - F/VG+ No DJ as issued.
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 1874092818
- ISBN 13
- 9781874092810
- Publisher
- Broadcast Books
- Place of Publication
- Bristol UK 166
- Date Published
- 2002-12-03
Terms of Sale
Cocksparrow Books
We offer a 30 day return guarantee, with full refund including original shipping costs. This applies for up to 30 days after delivery if an item arrives mis-described or damaged.
About the Seller
Cocksparrow Books
Biblio member since 2019
Salisbury, Wiltshire
About Cocksparrow Books
Cocksparrow Books have been selling high quality books for over thirty years, now solely on-line. We concentrate on non-fiction items and early edition fiction (including some soft-backs). Our book condition descriptions are fully detailed to give our customers the best information possible and we are always pleased to provide further information upon request.
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Shelf Wear
- Shelf wear (shelfwear) describes damage caused over time to a book by placing and removing a book from a shelf. This damage is...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Fine
- A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Crisp
- A term often used to indicate a book's new-like condition. Indicates that the hinges are not loosened. A book described as crisp...