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Buy this book on-line STREET, PAMELA: : My Father, A. G. Street. [Author doubly SIGNED copy.]LONDON.ROBERT HALE LIMITED,1984. ISBN 0709014414.
UK,slim,small 8vo HB+dw/dj,author doubly SIGNED, illustrated,2nd edn. [Originally and first published by Robert Hale (London),UK,8vo HB+dw/dj in 1969,then 3 reprints the same year,a separate Country Book Club issue followed in 1970 and then this 2nd edn in 1984,again by the original publisher.Whilst the Country Club issue is more common,both the 1st and 2nd edns are uncommon - particularly SIGNED copies of either.] FINE/FINE. No owner's name but author's neat blue ink handwritten inscrptns: 'For Pam from Pam. May '93' to verso of half-title page and another further separate inscrptn: 'Pamela Street' - without dedication - to the title page.Bright,crisp,clean,glossy laminated monochrome subject photographic front panel of dw/dj,with green+black lettering,black lettering to white spine/backstrip and black text critics' reviews to white background of rear panel; with negligible shelf-wear or creasing to edges and corners - no nicks,tears or splits present - a small spot of laminate wrinkling/shrinkage from rear lower corner's edge without any loss though.Top edges bright with merest,faintest hint of barely discernible foxing/spotting,fore-edges also bright and clean; contents bright, tight,clean,solid and sound - virtually pristine - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners - appears unread apart from my own collation.Publisher's bright,crisp,clean,sharp-cornered,original plain black cloth boards with bright,crisp,blocked silver gilt letters to spine/backstrip and clean plain white endpapers. UK,slim,8vo HB+dw/dj,author doubly SIGNED,2nd edn,5-110pp [paginated] includes a Foreword by Sir Arthur Bryant,a Preface to 2nd edn,11 chapters,12pp contemporary auto+biographical b/w photographs interspersed throughout the text; plus [unpaginated] half-title page with author's inscrptn to its verso,author SIGNED without dedication to title page,an Illustrations list/table,author's Note with dedication to its verso,an epitaph poem by author at the rear as the last page with subject's list of published works/titles to its verso (he wrote 35 books in 34 years). 'It is a loving and lovable portrait,warm with the deep affection of strong family loyalty.His daughter's memoir helps us,in the most graceful and endearing way,keep his memory green.' Desmond Hawkins,BBC. 'A brief,engaging biography of a famous personality of English countryside' Reginald Pound,'The Field'.
'A charming and affectionate book . . . Time may well put Street,in his best work,close to Cobbett among the great diarists of farming.' FARMERS WEEKLY.
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