The Travelling Horn Player

by Trapido, Barbara

Barbara Trapido was born and educated in South Africa and moved to London in 1963. She now lives in Oxford with her family.

Her first novel, Brother of the More Famous Jack, one of the most highly acclaimed first novels of the eighties, was awarded a special prize for fiction at the Whitbread Awards in 1982; her second novel was Noah's Ark, published in 1985; while her third, Temples of Delight, to which Juggling, published in 1994, is a sequel, was shortlisted for the 1990 Sunday Express Book of the Year Award. Her most recent book is The Travelling Hornplayer.

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by Barbara Trapido

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1998
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Hamish Hamilton, 1998. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. 1998. First Edition. 244 pages. Signed by the author. Pictorial dust jacket with orange lettering over black cloth. Clean pages with firm binding. Minimal tanning to endpapers and page edges. Mild wear to spine, board edges and corners. Unclipped dust jacket in protective plastic cover. Mild wear to edges and corners, with… Read more about this item
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London: Hamish Hamilton, 1998. First Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. original cloth hardcover,245 pages,SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR,pages a little browned otherwise very good in very good unclipped dustwrapper.
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New York:: Viking,, (1999). Hardcover first edition -. Near fine in near fine dust jacket (not very noticeable peeled spot to the dj, rem line.). First US printing. The author's fifth novel, one which shift from Scotland to Rome, from London to the Cotswolds. It begins with the accidental death of a young woman, an event that … Read more about this item
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Hamish Hamilton, London, 1998. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. Signed by Author(s). 1st Edition. First Edition (first printing) - this copy signed by the author on the title page. 8vo. 245pp. Black boards lettered in gold at the spine. Just a hint of tanning to the paperstock, else a fine copy in fine non-price-clipped dust wrapper. The author's fifth novel..
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1998
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1998
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London: Hamish Hamilton. This is a Mint Copy of this Book in a Mint Dust-Jacket (AS NEW) unopened and still in publisher's shrink wrap.SIGNED by the Author without any dedication to any named person on the Title Page.8vo First Edition 1st Impression . As New. Hardcover. First Edition. 1st Printing. 1998.
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(London: Hamish Hamilton, 1998). 8vo; original black boards; laminated pictorial dustwrapper; pp. (x) + 245. Very good condition; lower panel of dustwrapper slightly rubbed; spine a little cocked; previous owner's name and penned code on front free endpaper. "Shifting from Worcestershire to Rome, from Edinburgh to Northumberland, from London to the Cotswolds, The Travelling Hornplayer is peopled with… Read more about this item
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1998
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London: Hamish Hamilton, 1998 A fable of love and loss, marriage and music. 245pp. Signed and dated by the author to the title page.
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The Traveling Horn Player

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The Travelling Hornplayer

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1998
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The Travelling Horn Player  - 1st US Edition/1st Printing

The Travelling Horn Player - 1st US Edition/1st Printing

by Trapido, Barbara

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1998
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New York: Viking. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 1998. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 0670883573 . A handsome first edition/first printing in unread Fine condition in Fine dust-jacket; Barbara Trapido’s lyrical tale of a travelling horn player tells the story of an itinerant musician who, through his music, helps people find hope and solace in their lives.… Read more about this item
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