The Pinecone

Faber & Faber, 2012-01-01. First Edition 2nd.Imp.. Hardcover. F/VG++/VG++. 14.3 x 3 x 22.2 cm. Box 100 HARDBACK SHIPPED FROM THE UK* Edition: 1st.* Imp: 2nd.* Date of Publication: 2012* Publisher: Faber & Faber.* Binding and cover condition: Black cloth, bronze metallic title to spine. No bumps or rubs, absolutely minimal shelf wear, otherwise no visible faults. FINE* Jacket condition: Colour photo-illustrated dust wrapper showing a statue of a young lady in front of a watercolour titled ?Eden Valley,? by H. H. Bulman. NOT PRICE CLIPPED, showing shelf price of £20.00 rrp. Minimal shelf wear to edges. (now in clear unattached library jacket.) FINE* Contents condition: PRIVATE COPY NOT EX-LIBRARY. Coloured end papers. Clean, crisp, tight and bright with no reading wear, no visible faults. FINE.* Illustrations: Colour & b/w photos, prints line drawings maps and vignettes throughout.* Pages: 286 pp. text. xlv pp. acks, abbreviations and notes, list of illus. & detailed index at rear.* Description: This vivid, original book tells the story of the sculptor and artist, Sarah Losh, strong-willed passionate and unusual in every way. Born into an old Cumbrian family, heiress to an industrial fortune, Sarah combined a zest for progress with a love of the past. In Wreay church, her masterpiece near Carlisle, she let her imagination flower - there are carvings of ammonites, scarabs and poppies; an arrow pierces the wall as if shot from a bow; a tortoise-gargoyle launches itself into the air. Everywhere there are pinecones, her signature in stone. Sarah's story is also that of her radical family - friends of Wordsworth and Coleridge; of the love between sisters and the life of a village; of the struggle of the weavers, the coming of the railways, the findings of geology and the fate of a young northern soldier in the Afghan war. Above all, though, it is about the joy of making and the skill of local, unsung craftsmen.* A FINE copy of the 1st./2nd. absolutely minimal shelf wear.* 0