Click for full-size.
Strangers in Our Midst (Signed By Author)
by Lucy Bean
- Used
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Very Good (+)/Very Good
- Seller
-
Hyde, Cheshire, United Kingdom
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
Cape Town: Howard Timmins, 1970. Inscribed by the Author on the title page. No other marks or inscriptions. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked cream cloth boards, a trace of foxing to page edges and tiny bump to upper front corner. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked or creased with small tear to upper front edge and slight rubbing to corners. 232pp. A biographical account of the author's time with the S.A.W.A.S (the South African Auxiliary Services) in South Africa and in Italy. Their function was to provide help for visiting troops. The author was a close friend of General Smuts. Illustrated. Extremely scarce in the UK.. Signed by Author. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good (+)/Very Good. 8.5 x 5.5 inches.
Reviews
(Log in or Create an Account first!)
Details
- Bookseller
- Godley Books
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 021823
- Title
- Strangers in Our Midst (Signed By Author)
- Author
- Lucy Bean
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good (+)
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Howard Timmins
- Place of Publication
- Cape Town
- Date Published
- 1970
- Keywords
- South Africa, 1950s, SAWAS, Biography, Italy, 1940s
- Bookseller catalogs
- History; Medicine; Biography - military;
- Size
- 8.5 x 5.5 inches
Terms of Sale
Godley Books
Orders usually ship within 2 business days. Guaranteed next day delivery is also available in the UK. Please contact us directly to ask about this service. Royal Mail is our standard delivery company. Shipping costs are based on packaged books weighing 750 Grams. If your book order is heavy or oversized, we may contact you to let you know extra shipping is required. Overseas shipping can be by Airmail or Surface, so we may contact you for extra shipping if your overseas book order is too heavy for either of these services at the standard rate. You are welcome to ask us about direct postage costs. Return guarantee, with full refund including shipping costs for up to 30 days after delivery if an item arrives misdescribed or damaged.
About the Seller
Godley Books
Biblio member since 2009
Hyde, Cheshire
About Godley Books
We have been selling mainly non-fiction books for over 20 years and now have a very varied stock of around 10,000 books. As not all are yet online, please ask us for your search items as we may have the book you are seeking waiting to be catalogued. Our delivery company Royal Mail has twice increased overseas prices during 2020, in particular to the USA, so our shipping rates have been amended to reflect this.
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Title Page
- A page at the front of a book which may contain the title of the book, any subtitles, the authors, contributors, editors, the...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Inscribed
- When a book is described as being inscribed, it indicates that a short note written by the author or a previous owner has been...
- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- Price Clipped
- When a book is described as price-clipped, it indicates that the portion of the dust jacket flap that has the publisher's...
Frequently asked questions
This Book’s Categories
Collecting Aleister Crowley
Aleister Crowley was a well-known and highly controversial figure in the first half of the 20th Century. A writer, occultist, magician, and mountaineer, Crowley impacted a diverse collection of sub-cultures and interests. See collectible Crowley from Biblio booksellers.
Collecting The Beat Generation
The Beat Generation was born out of WWII, and it still continues to exert considerable influence on today’s literary scene. Biblio sellers have a fantastic collection of Beat Generation books and ephemera for browsing.
