Volume eleven of The Chronicle of Ancient Sunlight. Twelve hundred acres of downland valley with a trout stream await an heir and Sir Hilary Maddison wants his only nephew Phillip to learn farming the hard way, beginning as a labourer and rising to a tenancy-for-life. But Phillip has other ideas. Unable to forget the early death of his wife Barley as well as his friends who died in the Great War, he needs to recreate his past in his writing. Trying to combine both worlds Phillip is bound to fail in one of them; and literary ...
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Volume eleven of The Chronicle of Ancient Sunlight. Twelve hundred acres of downland valley with a trout stream await an heir and Sir Hilary Maddison wants his only nephew Phillip to learn farming the hard way, beginning as a labourer and rising to a tenancy-for-life. But Phillip has other ideas. Unable to forget the early death of his wife Barley as well as his friends who died in the Great War, he needs to recreate his past in his writing. Trying to combine both worlds Phillip is bound to fail in one of them; and literary success only intensifies the dilemma. 'The finest yet in Mr Williamson's long series' Kenneth Allsop
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Very Good in Very Good jacket. 1st Printing. First edition/first printing, published by Macdonald, London 1963. Book is in VG+ clean and tight condition. No marks or inscriptions. Light bumping to corners. Dustjacket not price clipped and in clean and bright condition with minimal wear. Protected in archive cover.
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This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside. This book has soft covers. In good all round condition. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item, 400grams, ISBN: 9780750921534.
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PLEASE NOTE, WE DO NOT SHIP TO DENMARK. New Book. Shipped from UK in 4 to 14 days. Established seller since 2000. Please note we cannot offer an expedited shipping service from the UK.
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Macdonald 1985. Hardcover with tight binding. Condition: Very Good. Clean and bright text. Includes a dust jacket, price unclipped, in near mint condition. ALL ITEMS ARE SENT BY ROYAL MAIL.
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Dispatched, from the UK, within 48 hours of ordering. This book is in good condition but will show signs of previous ownership. Please expect some creasing to the spine and/or minor damage to the cover. Damaged cover. The cover of is slightly damaged for instance a torn or bent corner. Aged book. Tanned pages and age spots, however, this will not interfere with reading.
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None. Fine in Very Good Indeed jacket. The first edition of the eleventh novel in Henry Williamson's extensive series about his fictional character Phillip Maddison, in the original price-clipped dustwrapper. The first edition of this work. In the original publisher's price-clipped dustwrapper. This is the eleventh novel in 'A Chronicle of Ancient Sunlight', a series that follows the life of Phillip Maddison from the late 1890s to the early 1950s. The series totalled in fifteen volumes. 'The Power of the Dead' takes place whilst Phillip is mourning the death of his child wife, and his friends who died in the war. The novel is mostly set in the north of Cranborne Chase. Written by Henry Williamson, an English novelist who won the Hawthornden Prize for literature in 1928 for 'Tarka the Otter'. Three pages of publisher's adverts to the rear. In the original publisher's cloth binding, in the original price-clipped dustwrapper. Externally, fine. As small amount of bumping to the extremities and to the head and tail of the spine. Some minor discolouration to the dustwrapper, and light marks to the wraps and to the reverse. A small amount of edge wear. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright and clean. Fine.
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PLEASE NOTE, WE DO NOT SHIP TO DENMARK. New Book. Shipped from UK in 4 to 14 days. Established seller since 2000. Please note we cannot offer an expedited shipping service from the UK.
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First Edition. First edition; Very Good-in Very Good dust jacket; some signatures are pulled on binding; jacket has very little wear to jacket; some foxing to edges of textblock; no markings to text. Pasadena's finest independent new and used bookstore.
