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I PLAY AS I PLEASE : The Memoirs Of An Old Etonian Trumpeter
by HUMPHREY LYTTELTON
- Used
- Good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good/Good
- Seller
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Brighton, East Sussex, United Kingdom
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About This Item
LONDON: MACGIBBON AND KEE, 1954 Red Boards with gilt blocked titles to spine, 200 x 135 mm approx. 200 pp Frontis + 15 other b/w photos on 8 pp of plates + chapter head line illustrations by the author. First Edition 2nd impression 1954. Please see our images of the actual book offered for sale for further details and condition. Good/ Good (Book- No notable shelf wear or soiling to boards, Previous owner name in ink to front paste down partially obscured by jacket flap, offset browning and foxing to free end papers extending to prelims incl. title and to fore and top edges of book block which is generally tanned. Dust Jacket - shelf rubbed with small nicks, tanned and with shelf soiling. Non price clipped - cover 15s. Supplied in a removable proprietary protective sleeve. No other notable defects.
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- Bookseller
- booksonlinebrighton
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 132408
- Title
- I PLAY AS I PLEASE : The Memoirs Of An Old Etonian Trumpeter
- Author
- HUMPHREY LYTTELTON
- Illustrator
- AUTHOR
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Publisher
- MACGIBBON AND KEE
- Place of Publication
- LONDON
- Date Published
- 1954
- Keywords
- Humphrey Lyttelton Jazz Band, George Webb's Dixielanders, Leicester Square Jazz Club, Wally Fawkes, Harry Brown, John Robinson, Nevil Skrimshire, Les Rawlings, Pat Hawkes, Johhny Parker, Humphrey Lyttelton Club, Cartoonist, Humph
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