Chapel Sands Mother Missing by Cumming Laura, First Edition (7 results)

1st edn 1st printing. 8vo. Original white lettered blue cloth (lightly bumped at tail of spine - otherwise Fine), dustwrapper (Fine, not price clipped). Pp. 301, illus with b&w photos in text (no inscriptions).

Hard Cover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First. A Fine unmarked copy with dustjacket which is not price clipped. First Edition, First Printing. 301 pages. Illustrations in the text. In the autumn of 1929, a small child was kidnapped from a Lincolnshire beach. Five agonising days went by before she was found in a nearby village. The child remembered nothing of these events and nobody ever spoke of them at home. It was another fifty years before she even learned of the kidnap. The girl became an artist and had a daughter, art writer Laura Cumming. Cumming grew up enthralled by her mother's strange tales of life in a seaside hamlet of the 1930s, and of the secrets and lies perpetuated by a whole community. So many puzzles remained to be solved. Cumming began with a few criss-crossing lives in this fraction of English coast - the postman, the grocer, the elusive baker - but soon her search spread right out across the globe as she discovered just how many lives were affected by what happened that day on the beach - including her own. On Chapel Sands is a book of mystery and memoir. Two narratives run through it: the mother's childhood tale; and Cumming's own pursuit of the truth. Humble objects light up the story: a pie dish, a carved box, an old Vick's jar. Letters, tickets, recipe books, even the particular slant of a copperplate hand give vital clues. And pictures of all kinds, from paintings to photographs, open up like doors to the truth. Above all, Cumming discovers how to look more closely at the family album - with its curious gaps and missing persons - finding crucial answers, captured in plain sight at the click of a shutter. D4A Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. 301pp. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

First Edition. Fine cloth copy in a near-fine, very slightly edge-dulled dust wrapper. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description: 301 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm. Subjects: Cumming, Laura Family; Elston, Elizabeth 1926- Kidnapping; Missing children England Lincolnshire; Kidnapping England Lincolnshire; Families England Lincolnshire; Adopted children. 1 Kg.

First Edition. Fine cloth copy in a near-fine, very slightly edge-dulled dust wrapper. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description: 301 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm. Subjects: Cumming, Laura Family; Elston, Elizabeth 1926- Kidnapping; Missing children England Lincolnshire; Kidnapping England Lincolnshire; Families England Lincolnshire; Adopted children. 1 Kg.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. A fine UK first edition, later printing hardback in a fine unclipped dustjacket - All my books are always securely packed with plenty of bubblewrap in professional boxes and promptly dispatched (within 2-3 days) - SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR - Pictures available upon request. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. A fine UK first edition, first printing hardback in a fine unclipped dustjacket - All my books are always securely packed with plenty of bubblewrap in professional boxes and promptly dispatched (within 2-3 days) - SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR - Pictures available upon request. Signed by Author(s).