Lightly Poached (Signed First Edition)
Language: English
Published by Hutchinson, London, 1973
- First Edition
- Signed
- Hardcover
- Used
Seller: Purpora Books, Comox, BC, CanadaPurpora Books
AbeBooks seller since August 30, 1997
Condition: Used - Near fine
US$ 30.00
Quantity: 1 available
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Book has minor handling wear, but internally is clean, unmarked and tightly bound. Dust jacket has minor wear to the tips and a fair amount of rubbing with moisture (where this action has actually punctured the paper in one place) along the spine panel. Wrap around dust jacket illustration and inernal decorations by Douglas Hall. Author's fifth book about her life in the Hebrides. 192 pages. Inscribed by author on the title page "Love to Mum! / Lillian Beck". Perhaps her mother or someone else's.
Seller Inventory # 21452
- Title
- Lightly Poached (Signed First Edition)
- Author
- Beckwith, Lillian
- Publisher
- Hutchinson, London
- Publication year
- 1973
- Condition
- Near Fine
- Dust jacket
- Very Good Plus
- Signed
- Signed by Author
- Binding
- Hard Cover in Dust Jacket
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0091176409
- ISBN 13
- 9780091176402
- Illustrator
- Douglas Hall
- Edition
- First Edition, First Printing.
- Seller catalogs
- Modern First Editions
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Purpora Books
Comox, BC, Canada
AbeBooks seller since August 30, 1997
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