142 pages, Dust Jacket poor with some loss, Binding very good condition. Contents inside front signed/dedicated by author " Jess, Happy Christmas and hope you will enjoy a laugh. Margaret" otherwise no inscriptions, apart from a couple of small stains, very good, clean and tight copy. Dust Jacket has been covered in clear, removable protective film. This is a true story of a landlady's account of running an East End pub called the 'Hammer & Sickle' with her husband and 2 young children. Also going in green with no idea of the pub world they were entering into. As you would expect running an East End pub at that time is like another planet, nothing is normal or as you would expect. She gives a vivid account of the joys the woes, the ups and downs,the ladies darts team, includes various Cockney characters, the bawdy ladies etc. Size: 12.5 x 20cm.approx.

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Bibliographic Details

Title

Prisoner in the Bar. (signed Copy)

Publisher

Phoenix House, London

Publication Date

1958

Binding

Hard Back

Illustrator

Illustrated by James Boswell.

Edition

First Edition.

Condition

Good

Dust Jacket Condition

Poor

Signed

Signed /dedicated by Author

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None. I have a number of unique and/or rare books on ABE at all times, my ABE books are kept separately. Very rarely if ever taken to book fairs. (99% of books, taken to fairs are not listed or on ABE & not catalogued, they are just boxed and no details are available.)I also sell at The Ephemera Society Fairs in London & The London Photograph Fairs, but not books. See my rare/unique books.

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Malcolm Books
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