Kif: An Unvarnished History
by Daviot, Gordon (pseud. for Elizabeth MacKintosh, aka Josephine Tey)
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- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good in Very Good dj
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About This Item
New York: D. Appleton & Company. Very Good in Very Good dj. 1929. 2nd printing. Hardcover. [a good sound copy, minor shelfwear, light surface deterioration of cloth near bottom of front cover, a bit of dust-soiling to top of text block; the jacket is a bit worn at edges and spine extremities, with a one-inch scrape/indentation mark on the spine, and a long diagonal closed tear (and associated crease) at the top of the front panel (which is quite unobtrusive and might have been expertly repaired at some point)]. The story of a horse-loving English farm boy who serves in the British Army during World War I, but whose disillusionment upon his return to civilian life in London leads him to fall in with a bad crowd, a gang of safe-cracking thieves. This was the first novel by this Scottish-born author (1896-1952); although best known under her mystery-fiction nom de plume "Josephine Tey," she actually used the alt-gender Daviot pseudonym much more frequently -- in fact, for virtually all her work for the stage, television and radio, and her early poetry too. .
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- Bookseller
- ReadInk (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 24747
- Title
- Kif: An Unvarnished History
- Author
- Daviot, Gordon (pseud. for Elizabeth MacKintosh, aka Josephine Tey)
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good in Very Good dj
- Edition
- 2nd printing
- Publisher
- D. Appleton & Company
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1929
- Keywords
- World War I, British Fiction, Crime, London
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