Published by Genuine Wisdom Centre The, 2013
ISBN 10: 0975048090 ISBN 13: 9780975048092
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Published by The Genuine Wisdom Centre, 2013
ISBN 10: 0975048082 ISBN 13: 9780975048085
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Paperback. Condition: Fine.
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Published by John Murray Press, United Kingdom, 1999
ISBN 10: 071955442X ISBN 13: 9780719554421
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Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Simon Blow's mother, Diana, thought she had married well when she paired with Purcell Blow. But Purcell squandered his inheritance and before long bankruptcy and homelessness loomed. In this recollection, Simon tells of his parent's brutal and alcoholic destruction at the hand of his father. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.
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Published by The Genuine Wisdom Centre, 2017
ISBN 10: 0987341766 ISBN 13: 9780987341761
Seller: HPB-Red, Dallas, TX, U.S.A.
paperback. Condition: Good. Connecting readers with great books since 1972! Used textbooks may not include companion materials such as access codes, etc. May have some wear or writing/highlighting. We ship orders daily and Customer Service is our top priority!.
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Published by Faber & Faber, 1987
ISBN 10: 0571133746 ISBN 13: 9780571133741
Seller: WorldofBooks, Goring-By-Sea, WS, United Kingdom
Hardback. Condition: Very Good. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.
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Published by John Murray, 1999
Seller: World of Rare Books, Goring-by-Sea, SXW, United Kingdom
First Edition Signed
Condition: Good. 1999. First Edition. 282 pages. Signed by the author. Pictorial dust jacket over black cloth. Signed with dedication from the author on front free endpaper. Pages remain bright and clean with minimal tanning and foxing. Binding remains firm. Small label to front free endpaper. Boards have light shelf wear with minor corner bumping and crushing to spine ends. Unclipped jacket has light edge wear with minor chipping and creasing.
Published by Genuine Wisdom Centre, 2017
ISBN 10: 098734174X ISBN 13: 9780987341747
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Published by The Genuine Wisdom Centre, 2017
ISBN 10: 0987341758 ISBN 13: 9780987341754
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Published by Katherine House Gallery,, Marlborough, 2016
Seller: Florence books, Salisbury, WILTS, United Kingdom
Card Covers. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Henry Moore, Ronald Pope, Peter Haigh, George Dannatt, Sandra Blow, Simon Quadrat & Others (illustrator). A clean, tight copy with a few marks to the front cover. No insc. Size: 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall.
Published by Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1983
ISBN 10: 0460045342 ISBN 13: 9780460045346
Seller: BoundlessBookstore, Wallingford, United Kingdom
Hardcover. Condition: Good. Boards are clean. Content is clean with spotting. Good DJ with some edge wear and light toning.
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Published by The Genuine Wisdom Centre, 2014
ISBN 10: 0987341723 ISBN 13: 9780987341723
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Published by The Genuine Wisdom Centre, 2020
ISBN 10: 0987341774 ISBN 13: 9780987341778
Seller: GF Books, Inc., Hawthorne, CA, U.S.A.
Condition: New. Book is in NEW condition. 1.01.
Publication Date: 2023
ISBN 10: 0987341782 ISBN 13: 9780987341785
Seller: Books Unplugged, Amherst, NY, U.S.A.
Condition: New. Buy with confidence! Book is in new, never-used condition 0.97.
Published by Genuine Wisdom Centre, Sydney, 2016
ISBN 10: 0975048074 ISBN 13: 9780975048078
Seller: Goulds Book Arcade, Sydney, Newtown, Sydney, NSW, Australia
Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Includes CD. The cover is a little worn. 135 pages. Books listed here are not stored at the shop. Please contact us if you want to pick up a book from Newtown.
Published by J.M. Dent & Sons, 1983
ISBN 10: 0460045342 ISBN 13: 9780460045346
Seller: Jackson Street Booksellers, Omaha, NE, U.S.A.
First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. Fine copy in hardcover with fine jacket.
Published by Folio Society, London, 2011
Seller: Muir Books [Robert Muir Old & Rare Books], PERTH, WA, Australia
First Edition
Boards in slip-case. Introd Simon Winder; illus. Paul Blow (illustrator). 1st thus. Octavo, original pictorial cloth in red and black, colour plates, pp xiv, 232. Near fine condition in like slipcase. Thriller novel set in the Balkans, first published in 1939 and now regarded as a moden classic.
Published by John Murray, 1999
ISBN 10: 071955442X ISBN 13: 9780719554421
Seller: Any Amount of Books, London, United Kingdom
First Edition Signed
8vo. pp 282. Original publishers black boards lettered gilt at spine. Signed presentation copy 'for Miranda and Miriam.Simon Blow.' loosely inserted copy of review by Peter Ackroyd - "a searing indictment of British class system." ISBN: 071955442X Fine in fine dust wrapper.
Published by Faber & Faber, London, United Kingdom, 1987
ISBN 10: 0571133746 ISBN 13: 9780571133741
Seller: 84 Charing Cross Road Books, IOBA, Cambridge, CAMBS, United Kingdom
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First Edition
Hardback. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Edition. Good+/Good+ 1st ed 1987 Faber hardback, unclipped DJ. Pages noticeably tanned, surface discoloration and wear to jacket, corners bumped, tight and unmarked. Size: 140\nx 220mm. 240 pages. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilogram. Category: True Crime; Biography: General; ISBN: 0571133746. ISBN/EAN: 9780571133741. Dewey Code: 929/.2/09411. The photos provided are of our own book, further photos may be arranged upon request. Inventory No: 084762.
Published by Faber & Faber, 1987
ISBN 10: 0571133746 ISBN 13: 9780571133741
Seller: Cotswold Internet Books, Cheltenham, United Kingdom
First Edition
First Edition. Owner's label over small surface damage to front pastedown. Pages a little yellowed. Binding tight. Dust jacket not price-clipped; edges a little shelf worn. Used - Very Good. VG hardback in VG dust jacket.
Published by J M Dent, London, 1983
Seller: Neil Holliday, Dymock, United Kingdom
First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Dark brown textured cloth covers with gilt titles. Single name inscription and small label to upper free ep. Unclipped jacket has minor edge wear, minimal. else very good. Photo illustrastions throughout. Tall 4to format. Overall a lovely copy.
Published by John Murray. First English edition., London, 1999
Seller: Badger Books, Woollahra, NSW, Australia
First Edition Signed
Hardcover/Hardback. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First Edition. A childhood destroyed despite all the advantages; inscribed by the author in the year of publication and signed by him on the title page. Fine in dustwrapper. inscribed by author. book.
Published by LONDON: FABER AND FABER LIMITED, 1987
Seller: Haddington Rare Books, North Berwick, United Kingdom
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 8vo, first edition, pp,xv,224, plates, black titled light yellow cloth, pictorial unclipped dust-jacket, light age-toning.
Published by John Murray., London, 1999
Seller: Alex Alec-Smith ABA ILAB PBFA, Everthorpe, United Kingdom
Signed
pp. (vi), 282. 8vo. D/W. Some underlining of the text. Signed by the author on the title page and inscribed by him 'To Rupert in memory of four days hunting for 'things' for South A. With love from Simon 24 June 1999 & who cheered me up after all this unhappiness.' Also loosely inserted a post card from Blow.
Published by Faber & Faber, 1987
Seller: The Cary Collection, Bristol, CT, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. BLOW, Simon [224] pp. Faber & Faber 1987 8 3/4" x 5 3/4" 'And yet, could the age of the conquering bourgeoisie flourish, when large tracts of the bourgeoisie itself found themselves so little engaged in the generation of wealth, and drifting so rapidly and so far away from the puritan ethic, the values of work and effort, accumulation through abstention, duty and moral earnestness, which had given them their identity, pride and ferocious energy? . The fear nay, the shame of a future of parasites haunted them.' These sentences, from the Marxist historian E.J. Hobsbawm's The Age of Empire, 1875-1914, would make the perfect epitaph for Simon Blow's history of his maternal grandmother's family, the Tennants. Or for a Thatcherite tract on Britain's decline from Victorian values. Or for a great novel like Thomas Mann's Buddenbrooks. The rise and fall of a mercantile dynasty is a rich old subject, and can be approached from several angles. Which will Simon Blow's be? 'If I was more Tennant than anything else,' he writes, 'I began to wonder who the Tennants were. Should I be proud, worried or ashamed? What influence was this blood likely to have over my destiny?' It sounds like another search for identity 'the curse of the age', as E.S. Turner recently remarked à propos of Gloria Vanderbilt's autobiography. Well, at least this isn't an autobiography though perhaps it would be more amusing if it were. The first half traces the Tennants back to their origins as subsistence farmers in Ayrshire. At the turn of the 18th century, one of them was apprenticed to a weaver and developed an interest in bleaching then an area of growth in the textile industry, since everyone was looking for a fast chemical process to replace the space and time-consuming laying-out of linen on meadows. Tennant teamed up with a trained chemist called Macintosh, who later immortalised his name by inventing a waterproofing method. Together they patented a bleaching powder and set up a factory at St Rollox near Glasgow. By 1830, it was the largest chemical factory in the world, creating a lot of wealth for Glasgow and a sky black with fumes. The next Tennant, John, went on developing, expanding and diversifying the business, which already had a branch in the City of London. A multi-millionaire by the age of 25, John was a typical early Victorian entrepreneur, perhaps not even all that untypical in not being married to the mistress of his solid Glasgow mansion who was also the mother of his children. Her name was Robina. Robina's son Charles was born in 1823 and succeeded his father as head of the firm. He bought an estate at Glen in Peebleshire, and built a baronial castle on it where he brought up 12 children by two successive wives to hunt, shoot and fish. He sent the boys to Eton and acquired a collection of paintings, a house in Grosvenor Square and, in 1885, a baronetcy after which he was known as 'the Bart'. By this time the business empire was already beginning to decline, partly because of a general recession, and partly because Ludwig Mond, the founder of ICI, was using more advanced chemical methods: in the end he was able to force Tennants into a partial merger. Up till now, Blow has munched his way conscientiously through uncongenial material: the Scottish Enlightenment, the Industrial Revolution, Radicalism, even insider dealing and the defeat of Tyre by Nebuchadnezzar none of these subjects really seems to turn him on, though some of the Tyrian purple has leaked into the prose and produced phrases like 'Society gave a brittle laugh.' But with the Bart's children he is at last into Society, and things begin to brighten up. Society, according to Blow, was slumbering under a pall of stuffy philistinism, waiting for the unconventional Tennants to kiss it awake. The kiss was administered by the girls: Charlotte, who married Lord Ribblesdale; Lucy, who married Thomas Graham-Smith; Laura, who married Alfred Lyttelton; and Margot, who considerably.
Published by J.M. Dent & Sons Ltd., 1983
Seller: The Cary Collection, Bristol, CT, U.S.A.
First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. [151] pp. BLOW, Simon J.M. Dent & Sons Ltd. 1983.
Published by Faber, 1987
Seller: Collectors Bookstore, Antwerpen, Belgium
Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Broken Blood Special Collection by Simon Blow. Published by Faber in 1987. Hardcover. What makes this title so special is its limited availability. - Publishers Weekly. Collectible item in very fine condition.
Published by J. M. Dent & Sons LTD, London and Melbourne, 1983
First Edition Signed
Cloth. Condition: Very Good Indeed. Not Stated (illustrator). First edition. A signed first edition of Simon Blow's detailed history of English hunting, illustrated throughout. The first edition of this work.Signed by the author to the recto to the front endpaper, 'To Henry, Recently retied from the grass ' through wretched Pytchley 'plough', with best wishes, from the author, . 29.6.86'.In the original price-clipped dustwrapper.A fascinating study into the English hunting society during the Golden Age of hunting, before the First World War.Illustrated with in-text illustrations throughout.Written by Simon Blow. In the original publisher's cloth binding, in the original price-clipped dustwrapper. Externally, smart. Dustwrapper with minor edgewear and some marks to the wraps. Light discolouration to the wraps. Author's inscription to the recto to the front endpaper. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright and generally clean, with some odd spots. Very Good Indeed. signed by author. book.