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Condition: very good. Gut/Very good: Buch bzw. Schutzumschlag mit wenigen Gebrauchsspuren an Einband, Schutzumschlag oder Seiten. / Describes a book or dust jacket that does show some signs of wear on either the binding, dust jacket or pages.

Condition: good. Befriedigend/Good: Durchschnittlich erhaltenes Buch bzw. Schutzumschlag mit Gebrauchsspuren, aber vollständigen Seiten. / Describes the average WORN book or dust jacket that has all the pages present.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. 1st Edition. First edition, second printing. Hardback bound in blue cloth with printed titling to spine and upper board. 19.5 × 12.5cm, 395pp. Signed by S P B Mais with a lengthy dedication to the ffep, "To Kenneth Foster, Prince of letter-writers, Regal in generosity, As refreshingly Eighteenth century in his small talk as he is refreshingly plucky and skilful on his small SKI, from a Grub Street Hack who has barely time in this life to sign his name but can appreciated a sportsman when he meets one. 6 March 1924, SPB Mais". S P B Mais's third novel, appears to be a romance of a young couple as they steer a course through their life together (or sometimes not together.). Don't hold me to this precis, I might have got the wrong end of the stick from a quick look through. Condition: Whilst the book is in fairly good shape, the pages are heavily foxed throughout although remaining in good readable condition. Signed by Author(s).

Condition: Good. Il cofanetto (se previsto) può presentare modeste tracce d'uso, piccole lesioni, fioriture e macchie non invasive.Sovraccoperta con modeste tracce d'uso. Può presentare piccole mancanze, leggere bruniture, rade fioriture o macchiette.Copertina con modeste tracce d'uso. Può presentare minime mancanze, qualche rada fioritura o macchietta, leggere bruniture o piccole pieghe.Dorso in buone condizioni. Può presentare un fisiologico stress da lettura, piccole mancanze e segni di cedevolezza in prossimità delle cerniere.Tagli moderatamente bruniti; possono presentare fioriture rade.L'interno può presentare modeste tracce d'uso, segni a matita, timbro o firma di appartenenza. Le pagine possono presentare minime gualciture, fioriture non invasive e leggere bruniture.Per Maggiori informazioni o foto non esitate a contattarci. . Buono (Good). Book.

Encuadernación de tapa dura. Condition: Regular. Libro en aceptable estado, encuadernado en cartoné, manchas, causadas por el constante fluir del tiempo, en los cortes de las hojas, y en las hojas. Libro muy raro.Stuart Petre Brodie Mais lived from 1885 to 1975. His wireless broadcasts for the BBC in the 1920s, 1930s and especially the wartime years of the 1940s, made him one of the most famous men in England, his peremptory but mellow, sergeant-majorly voice betraying a mixed heritage. In the same way that J. B. Priestley and Wilfred Pickles became household names, so S. P. B., or "Petre" as he preferred to be called, was, at the height of his broadcasting career, receiving 400-500 letters a day from listeners all over Britain, as his Kitchen Front (which was supported by the Ministry of Food and occasionally featured a promising young cookery writer called Marguerite Patten) and Microphone at Large programmes gained huge audiences in the dark days of the early 1940s, broadcasting from studios in Oxford Street at the height of the Blitz to tell the United States and England's dominions how the mother country was still in the fray and beating Hitler. 395 páginas.

Condition: New. New.

First edition, first impression, of the author's third novel. Presentation copy inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, "A. I. Richardson / d. d. / S. P. B. Mais / 21 March 1924". Octavo. Original blue cloth, titles to spine and front board in black, decoration front board in black, publisher's device to rear board in blind. With dust jacket. Spine very faintly discoloured and lightly rubbed at head and tail, front endpapers a touch tanned. An excellent copy in a rubbed jacket with a few minor tears and chips and a tanned spine panel.