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An Appetite For Life The Education of a Young Diarist, 1924-1927
by Ritchie, Charles
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good in Very Good dust jacket
- ISBN 10
- 0770515738
- ISBN 13
- 9780770515737
- Seller
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Vars, Ontario, Canada
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About This Item
Macmillan of Canada. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1977. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 0770515738 . Brown hard boards with gilt titles to the spine. In very good condition, a bright & clean interior, a crease in the inner spine, pages16, 17. The DJ is very good, light soiling with a small tear on the back top edge. First Edition. " Charles Ritchie's first volume of diaries, "The Siren Years," created a sensation when it was published in 1974. Besides winning the Governor General's Award for Non-fiction, it was hailed by reviewers on both sides of the Atlantic. "An Appetite for Life," his second volume, first published in 1977, deals with his youth in Halifax and his career at Oxford - the years when Charles Ritchie turned from a callow, blundering youth into a callow, blundering young man." ; 1 x 8.4 x 5.6 Inches; 173 pages; Shelved .
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- Bookseller
- Bytown Bookery
(CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 9176
- Title
- An Appetite For Life The Education of a Young Diarist, 1924-1927
- Author
- Ritchie, Charles
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good in Very Good dust jacket
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0770515738
- ISBN 13
- 9780770515737
- Publisher
- Macmillan of Canada
- Place of Publication
- Toronto
- Date Published
- 1977
- Keywords
- 0770515738, Literary, Great Britain, Halifax
- Bookseller catalogs
- Literary Citicism; Autobiography; Europe; Autobiography & Memoirs;
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