The Bickersteth Diaries, 1914-1918.
by Donald (Foreword) Coggan Bickersteth, Ella John (Introduction) Terraine
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- F/F/VG
- ISBN 10
- 0850524881
- ISBN 13
- 9780850524888
- Seller
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About This Item
HARDBACK "RARELY AVAILABLE OUTSIDE THE US," SHIPPED FROM THE UK* Edition: 3rd.* Imp: 1st.* Date of Publication: 1998* Publisher: Leo Cooper.* Binding and cover condition: Red cloth, gilt title to spine. No bumps or rubs, no visible faults. FINE.* Jacket condition: Monochrome photo-illustrated dust wrapper with dark crimson background. NOT PRICE CLIPPED, showing shelf price of £25.00. Slight shelf wear to top edge and to head of spine. Spine and edges sunned. VG* Contents condition: PRIVATE COPY NOT EX-LIBRARY. B/w sketch maps to front and rear end papers. Clean, crisp, tight and bright with no reading wear, no marks to text, slight marks, otherwise no visible faults. FINE.* Illustrations: One block of 8pp. b/w photos and line drawn family tree and facsimile of a signal message.* Pages: 306 pp. text. xxvi pp. epilogue, apps. notes, index & blank pages at rear.* Description: This book is a studiously edited version of the eleven volumes and more than three thousand pages of the diarist's original work. Ella Bickersteth began to put it together for her six sons, because one of them was in Australia at the outbreak of the 1914-18 war. The book reflects upon church and politics, theological musings and matter-of-fact details of how an anxious mother, who was also a busy vicar's wife, kept going through the huge upheaval of war.* A NEAR FINE copy of the 1998 edition with some age and wear to dust jacket reducing it to VG.* Bickersteth, John
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- Bookseller
- Cocksparrow Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 312
- Title
- The Bickersteth Diaries, 1914-1918.
- Author
- Donald (Foreword) Coggan Bickersteth, Ella John (Introduction) Terraine
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - F/F/VG
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 3rd. Edition 1st. Imp.
- ISBN 10
- 0850524881
- ISBN 13
- 9780850524888
- Publisher
- Pen & Sword Books Ltd
- Place of Publication
- Barnsley UK 352
- Date Published
- 1998-01-01
- Size
- 15.6 x 2.5 x 23.4 cm
- Note
- May be a multi-volume set and require additional postage.
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