THE FLOWER BENEATH THE FOOT; Being a record of the early life of St. Laura de Nazianzi and the times in which she lived
by FIRBANK, Ronald
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- first
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- Seller
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Lanesborough, Massachusetts, United States
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About This Item
London: Grant Richards, 1923. First Edition. John, Augustus. 8vo, pp. 224. Black cloth stamped in gilt. With portraits by Augustus John and Wyndham Lewis. Owner's bookplate on flyleaf. Some slight foxing, a few pencil markings, o/w VG.
Synopsis
John Mortimer is a playwright, novelist, and former practicing barrister who has written many film scripts as well as stage, radio, and television plays, the Rumpole plays, for which he received the British Academy Writer of the Year Award, and the adaptation of Evelyn Waugh’s Brideshead Revisited . He is the author of twelve collections of Rumpole stories and three acclaimed volumes of autobiography.
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- Bookseller
- Second Life Books Inc (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 47108
- Title
- THE FLOWER BENEATH THE FOOT; Being a record of the early life of St. Laura de Nazianzi and the times in which she lived
- Author
- FIRBANK, Ronald
- Illustrator
- John, Augustus
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Grant Richards
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1923
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- VG
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- O/W
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- Gilt
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