An Encyclopaedia of Myself
by Meades, Jonathan
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- Paperback
- first
- Condition
- F/F/ND
- ISBN 10
- 1857029054
- ISBN 13
- 9781857029055
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About This Item
SOFTBACK SHIPPED FROM THE UK.* Edition: 1st. Thus.* Impression: 1st. (Stated).* Date of Publication: 2015* Publisher: 4th. Estate.* Binding and cover condition: Black & white photo-illustrated soft card covers showing a montage of snapshots. No bumps or rubs, shelf wear or reading creases to spine, none to hinge. Seems un-used. FINE.* Contents condition: PRIVATE COPY NOT EX-LIBRARY. Clean, crisp, tight & bright. No annotations or marks to text. No tanning or other visible faults. FINE.* Illustrations: B/w photos at frontis and several within text throughout.* Pages: 341 pp. text. iii pp. illustrations list & blank pages at rear.* Product Description:- 'A symphonic poem about postwar England and Englishness ... A masterpiece' Financial Times. The 1950s were not grey. In Jonathan Meades's detailed, petit-point memoir they are luridly polychromatic. They were peopled by embittered grotesques, bogus majors, vicious spinsters, reckless bohos, pompous boors, drunks, suicides. Death went dogging everywhere. Salisbury had two industries: God and the Cold War. For the child, delight is to be found everywhere - in the intense observation of adult frailties, in landscapes and prepubescent sex, in calligraphy and in rivers. This memoir is an engrossing portrait of a disappeared provincial England, a time and place unpeeled with gruesome relish.* This is a FINE text copy of the 1st./1st. with no visible faults AS NEW.*
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- Bookseller
- Cocksparrow Books (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 9136
- Title
- An Encyclopaedia of Myself
- Author
- Meades, Jonathan
- Format/Binding
- Paperback
- Book Condition
- Used - F/F/ND
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edn, 1st. Imp.
- ISBN 10
- 1857029054
- ISBN 13
- 9781857029055
- Publisher
- Fourth Estate
- Place of Publication
- London UK. 352
- Date Published
- 2014-05-08
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