A Drake at the Door: Tales from a Cornish Flower Farm (Minack Chronicles)
by Tangye, Derek
- Used
- Paperback
- first
- Condition
- VG++/GD++/ND
- ISBN 10
- 1472109929
- ISBN 13
- 9781472109927
- Seller
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Salisbury, Wiltshire, United Kingdom
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About This Item
SOFTBACK SHIPPED FROM THE UK.* Edn: 1st. Thus.* Impression: 1st. Full number line.* Date of Publication: 2014(1963)* Publisher: Constable.* Binding and cover condition: Colour-illustrated soft card covers. No bumps or rubs. Some shelf wear to edges & corners. Minor reading creases to spine, hinge & front cover. GD++* Contents condition: PRIVATE COPY NOT EX-LIBRARY. Clean, crisp, tight & bright. No annotations, inscriptions or marks to text. Seems lightly-used. no tanning. Fore edge very slightly grubby. VG++* Illustrations: Small b/w vignettes to front & within text.* Pages: 241 pp. text. ix pp. blank pages at rear.* Product Description:- The third title in the Minack Chronicles, which tell the story of how Derek and his wife Jeannie left behind their London home to establish a flower farm on the coast of Cornwall. This book takes a closer look at some of the animals who shared the Tangye's home and surroundings, especially Boris, the Muscovy duck.* This is a NEAR VG copy of the 1st./1st. fnl. with some reading & shelf wear.*
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- Cocksparrow Books (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 993
- Title
- A Drake at the Door: Tales from a Cornish Flower Farm (Minack Chronicles)
- Author
- Tangye, Derek
- Format/Binding
- Paperback
- Book Condition
- Used - VG++/GD++/ND
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st. Edn, 1st. Imp. FNL.
- ISBN 10
- 1472109929
- ISBN 13
- 9781472109927
- Publisher
- Constable
- Place of Publication
- London UK 241
- Date Published
- 2014-02-20
- Size
- 11.1 x 1.7 x 17.8 cm
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