Dudgeon Piers Editor (5 results)

Hardbound. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Description: A guide for the literary detective, with maps and clear roadside instructions; or, may just be enjoyed by the armchair reader, with extracts from novels, poems, stories and myths. Illustrated with maps, a few historic illustrations, and many color and b&w photographs. BINDING/CONDITION: blue paper covered boards; bookplate, the spine is very slightly cocked, otherwise a Very Good+ book, a Near Fine dust jacket; the dust jacket is not price clipped. index. 4to (about 11'' to 12.5'' tall). 224 pages.…

Hardcover. Condition: Vg/F/VG+. y First Revised Edition, 1st. Imp. FNL. HARDBACK SHIPPED FROM THE UK* Edition: 1st. Thus. Revised.* Imp: 1st. Full number line.* Date of Publication: 1999* Publisher: Headline Books.* Binding and cover condition: Pale blue cloth, gilt title to spine. No bumps or rubs, no visible faults. FINE* Jacket condition: Colour photo-illustrated dust wrapper, price clipped. Minimal shelf wear to head & tail of spine. VG+* Contents condition: PRIVATE COPY NOT EX-LIBRARY. FEP removed. Clean, crisp, tight and bright with no reading wear, no marks to text, no tanning or other visible faults. VG.* Illustrations: Colour & b/w photos, prints, line drawings & maps throughout.* Pages: 222 pp. text. ii pp. index & acknowledgements at rear.* Description: ?In my case it was what I had soaked up during those twenty-two years spent in and around East Jarrow, Jarrow and South Shields. Like a great sponge I?d taken it all in: the character of the people; the fact that work was their life?s blood; their patience in the face of poverty; their perseverance that gave them the will to hang on ; their bigotry, for there were those who couldn?t see beyond the confine of the country? And the women. Stoics would be a better name to give the females of that time, my early time, because for most of them along those river banks it was grind in one way or another from Monday morning to Sunday night.? Grim though her early life undoubtedly was, it aroused such strong feelings and deep emotions in her that she fed off them for her ideas and characters for the rest of her life. And in the company of her best-loved fictional creations she writes passionately about Tyneside and its people who meant so much to her.* A NEAR FINE copy of the 1st/1st fnl, revised. Reduced by some faults to VG* 1999-01-01. …

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. BCA, 1992. Hardback, d/j, 4to, 192pp, illust. Owner address label, d/j faded and torn. A fair copy. /0.9uk . (Please note that our condition gradings are stricter than those of Abebooks and many other sellers. There may therefore be a discrepancy between this description and its listed condition grading).…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Good condition book and DJ. 192 pages good and clean with clear print, indexed. No foxing, no previous names. Top right hand corner of DJ scuffed at the corner. Colour photographs throughout. Nick Wright (illustrator).

Paperback. Condition: Brand New. 240 pages. 5.00x0.60x8.00 inches. In Stock. This item is printed on demand.