THE FIRST CUCKOO: A selection of the most witty, amusing and memorable letters to The Times 1900-1980
Published by George Allen & Unwin Ltd, London, 1981
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0 Garamond;}{fnilfcharset0 Garamond;}} {*generator Riched20 10.0.20348}{*mmathPrmdispDef1mwrapIndent1440 }viewkind4uc1 dbfs24 Gregory (Kenneth) Editor. THE FIRST CUCKOO: A selection of the most witty, amusing and memorable letters to The Times 1900-1980. Chosen and introduced by Kenneth Gregory. Foreword by Bernard Levin. Pp. 360(last blank), title page decoration, indices; demy 8vo; red boards, spine lettered in silver; dust wrapper, backstrip quite faded, the flaps browned; bookplate of David Levine, Sydney, on upper pastedown, top edges of leaves lightly foxed; Times Books/ George Allen & Unwin (Publishers) Ltd, 1981. Second edition. *First published in 1976; the second edition includes additional letters from 1975 to 1980. Includes letters from Conan Doyle, Winston Churchill, Vita Sackville-West, T. S. Eliot, Bernard Shaw, Marie Stopes, P. G. Wodehouse, a.o.
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- Title
- THE FIRST CUCKOO: A selection of the most witty, amusing and memorable letters to The Times 1900-1980
- Author
- Gregory, Kenneth [Editor]
- Publisher
- George Allen & Unwin Ltd, London
- Publication year
- 1981
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Kay Craddock - Antiquarian Bookseller
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