The Puppet Show of Memory
Baring, Maurice
Published by Little, Brown and Company, Boston, 1922
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457pp. Tips and spine ends are bumped and rubbed. Lower tip of both boards are heavily bumped. Deckled edges have small creases and chipping. Spine is lightly shaken. Small former owner notation inside front board and front end paper at the spine edge. Spine edge of pages have light toning. Ghost of former owner notation at spine edge of inside rear board. Inside front board and first few pages have a 1" crease at the spine edge due to binding. Frontispiece has wrinkling. Boards have scuffs, light scratches and several stains and smudges. Spine title paper has a few surface tears, chipping along the edges, missing a few pieces and is sunned. Top edge of text block is dust stained, has several scratches. Spine has a slant. Text is clean and unmarked. Seller Inventory # 28150
Bibliographic Details
Title: The Puppet Show of Memory
Publisher: Little, Brown and Company, Boston
Publication Date: 1922
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: Good
Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket
Edition: Later Printing.
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Puppet Show of Memory (Cassell Biographies)
Seller: GoldBooks, Denver, CO, U.S.A.
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Paperback. Condition: very good. Very Good Copy. Customer Service Guaranteed. Seller Inventory # 15I6_14_0304314447
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Puppet Show of Memory (Cassell Biographies)
Seller: Bookplate, Chestertown, MD, U.S.A.
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Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. Tanned edges/pages o/w internally clean, unmarked with light wear to spine. Solid reading copy. BP/LitCrit. Seller Inventory # ABE-1611011472172
The Puppet Show of Memory: The Crown Library
Published by
William Heinemann Ltd., London, 1930
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Seller: Ryde Bookshop Ltd, Isle of Wight, United Kingdom
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Hardcover. Condition: Fair. Loosely bound, brown cloth boards with front inner hinge split. Fading, chipping and peeling on the spine, dust spotting on covers. Foxing on the end papers. No jacket. Reading copy only. Seller Inventory # 072958
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Maurice Baring - The Puppet Show of Memory: 'I can remember the peculiar roar of London in those days''
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paperback. Condition: Very Good. Seller Inventory # mon0003669974
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The Puppet Show of Memory
Seller: Crappy Old Books, Barry, United Kingdom
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Paperback. Condition: Good. Presenting: The Puppet Show of Memory (2001, House of Stratus) by Maurice Baring ? a memoir with white gloves and muddy boots, equally at home in a salon or a field kitchen. ISBN: 9780755101078 . Condition: Good , which in the venerable dialect of second-hand booksellers means ?well-behaved, fully readable, and still capable of introducing you to half of Europe before tea.? Baring?s life was a grand tour that forgot to stop: gilded drawing rooms; dust-bitten railways; telegrams, waltzes, and the occasional artillery report. Diplomat, war correspondent, friend to people who spoke exclusively in epigrams ? he drifted from late-Victorian comfort into the crisp calamity of the twentieth century, bringing a notepad and disarming charm. This isn?t a tell-all; it?s a show-you , a procession of scenes in which the curtains keep parting on Russia before it changed costumes, Paris between anecdotes, and England in the exact moment it traded top hats for tin hats. From the outside: the neat, minimalist House of Stratus look ? sleek cover, sensible dimensions, a paperback that sits on the shelf like it owns cufflinks. Expect honest shelf-rub, a courteous spine crease (more ?raised eyebrow? than ?trauma?), and pages with that gentle early-2000s ivory tone. Nothing dramatic: no fluorescent graffiti, no cryptic marginalia from a previous owner named ?Aunt Sybil.? Our Good means the binding is steady, the text is clean, and the overall effect is ?civilised but curious.? Inside: Baring conducts memory like theatre ? scenes, players, exits pursued by history. You get Versailles whispers and barracks coffee, Moscow sleigh bells and newsroom deadlines, the Souls and the soldiers, plus cameo appearances by the sort of people who can turn a dinner table into a primary source. The prose is bright without staring, amused without cruelty, gracious even when the century stops being so. He?s the rare memoirist who can be both insider and eyewitness, noting the embroidery on the curtain and the fire behind it. Tone report: urbane, lightly ironic, quietly devastating when it wants to be. Baring writes as if good manners can survive anything ? which makes it all the more affecting when they don?t. Anecdotes land like postcards; reflections arrive like after-dinner brandy. It?s a time machine operated by someone who remembers where everyone sat, what they said, and which of them knew the waltz by heart. Why this copy? Because Crappy Old Books specialises in the noble paradox: decidedly un -crappy editions with just enough lived-in charm to prove they?ve been read by actual humans. Our Good is your sweet spot ? opens flat, behaves politely, and looks excellent beside a teacup or a trench map (depending on your afternoon). Ideal for: Readers who like their history with people in it, all talking at once. Fans of memoirs that keep a diary and a passport in the same pocket. Anyone who enjoys the moment when epigram meets epoch and both blink. Potential side effects: an urge to write letters on heavy paper, sudden affection for railway timetables, and a habit of describing acquaintances as ?figures in a well-lit tableau.? In short: a cultivated, humane, irresistibly readable memory-theatre of a vanishing world, staged by a master of entrances and exits. The Puppet Show of Memory lets the curtain rise on an age and refuses to slam it. Brought to you by Crappy Old Books , where the name is self-deprecation and the stock is impeccably turned out. Seller Inventory # 4816
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Condition: Good. No jacket. A lot of dirty marks and some wear on cover. Also foxing on first and last few pages and on outer edges. A signature on first page but content is fine. Seller Inventory # 107632-5
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Puppet Show of Memory (Cassell Biographies)
Seller: ThriftBooks-Dallas, Dallas, TX, U.S.A.
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Paperback. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less 1.25. Seller Inventory # G0304314447I3N00
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The Puppet Show of Memory (Casssell Biographies)
Seller: Persephone's Books, Gastonia, NC, U.S.A.
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Trade Paperback. Condition: Fine. No Jacket. 457 pp. An unread copy. Seller Inventory # 068844
The Puppet Show of Memory
Published by
William Heinemann Ltd, UK, 1930
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Seller: RIVERLEE BOOKS, Waltham Cross, HERTS, United Kingdom
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Hardcover. Condition: Fair. Fair to good condition hard cover, some wear to cover and spine, pencil markings to inside page, tanning to pages, otherwise in a good readable condition. Seller Inventory # 82929
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The Puppet Show of Memory (Cassell Biographies)
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Weidenfeld Nicolson Illustrated, 1987
ISBN 10: 0304314447
ISBN 13: 9780304314447
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Seller: Greener Books, London, United Kingdom
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