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Look Back With Gratitude.
by SMITH, Dodie
- Used
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
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- Seller
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London, United Kingdom
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About This Item
London: Muller, Blond & White,, 1985. First edition, first impression, inscribed by Dodie Smith on the front free endpaper: "With many thanks. Dodie Smith". Loosely inserted is an inscribed Christmas card signed by Dodie and Alec Beesley, her husband. This is the fourth volume in Smith's autobiography series - a fifth volume was planned but not issued. The first three volumes focused on her childhood and life in Manchester and London. Look Back With Gratitude focuses on the years Smith spent in America and her travels with Beesley, complete with photographs. Octavo. Original brown cloth, spine lettered in gilt. With pictorial dust jacket. With 24 photographic plates. Yellowing to edges, browning on plate 23: jacket unclipped, slightly sunned, damp stain on crown of rear panel: a near-fine copy in like jacket.
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- Bookseller
- Peter Harrington
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 165887
- Title
- Look Back With Gratitude.
- Author
- SMITH, Dodie
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Place of Publication
- London: Muller, Blond & White,
- Date Published
- 1985
- Note
- May be a multi-volume set and require additional postage.
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About the Seller
Peter Harrington
Biblio member since 2006
London
About Peter Harrington
Since its establishment, Peter Harrington has specialised in sourcing, selling and buying the finest quality original first editions, signed, rare and antiquarian books, fine bindings and library sets. Peter Harrington first began selling rare books from the Chelsea Antiques Market on London's King's Road. For the past twenty years the business has been run by Pom Harrington, Peter's son.
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