HARDBACK SHIPPED FROM THE UK* Edition: 1st.* Imp: 1st.* Date of Publication: 1992* Publisher: Michael Russell.* Binding and cover condition: Dark blue cloth, gilt title to spine. Slight bumps to lower corners, minor rubs, absolutely minimal shelf wear. VG++* Jacket condition: Monochrome photo-illustrated dust wrapper on navy blue background. NOT PRICE CLIPPED, showing shelf price of £15.95. Slight shelf wear to top & bottom edges and to head & tail of spine. Very small nick to top of rear flap fold. VG+* Contents condition: PRIVATE COPY NOT EX-LIBRARY. Previous owners signature to ffep. Clean, crisp, tight and bright with no reading wear, no marks to text, no tanning or other visible faults. VG+.* Illustrations: B/w photo portrait to frontis.* Pages: 172 pp. text. v pp. index & blank pages at rear.* Description: Bureaucrats belong on the backstairs. Perhaps that was in any case Sir John Barne?s natural habitat, as he spent a good part of his life on the backstairs of the Church Of England, as well as of the Foreign Office. Son of an individualistic bishop, whose life he also wrote, scholar of Winchester and Trinity, Cambridge, wartime soldier and member of the Diplomatic Service for thirty years, he has recalled here some of the happier moments, including memories of public figures with whom he served and of situations in which he found himself, upstairs and downstairs.* A NEAR FINE copy of the 1st/1st. with NO MAJOR FAULTS. Minor shelf wear and owners signature reducing it to VG+.*

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Bookseller: Cocksparrow Books (GB)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 4037
Title: Footsteps on the Backstairs.
Author: Barnes, John
Format/Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Used - VG+/ VG++/VG+
Quantity Available: 1
Edition: First Thus 1st. Imp.
ISBN 10: 0859551865
ISBN 13: 9780859551861
Publisher: Michael Russell
Place of Publication: Norwich, UK 177
Date Published: 1992-01-01
Size: 23.6 x 15.5 x 2 cm

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