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The Hollow on the Hill: The Search for a Personal Philosophy
by Milne, Christopher
- Used
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- See description
- ISBN 10
- 0413502007
- ISBN 13
- 9780413502001
- Seller
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Skipton, North Yorkshire, United Kingdom
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About This Item
London:: Methuen,. Hardback. Signed and inscribed first edition copy of this memoir by Christopher Milne, "Christopher Robin". To the half title page is a short letter to a Miss Pennington on the occasion of her hundredth birthday. in it Milne mentions his father's centenary, A. A. Milne having also been born in 1882. It is signed "yours sincerely, Christopher Milne, 1982" to the end of this letter. This, the last in Christopher Milne's trilogy of works escaping the famous childhood, deals with the solace of landscape and nature. Photographs throughout by James Ravilious. A signed, first edition copy in unclipped dust jacket. Green boards with gilt titles to spine are very clean but slightly bumped to tail of spine. Dust jacket is very clean and neat. Very good copy in like dust jacket . Hardback. First Edition. 1982.
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Details
- Bookseller
- C L Hawley
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 24595
- Title
- The Hollow on the Hill: The Search for a Personal Philosophy
- Author
- Milne, Christopher
- Illustrator
- James Ravilious
- Format/Binding
- Hardback
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0413502007
- ISBN 13
- 9780413502001
- Publisher
- Methuen,
- Place of Publication
- London:
- Date Published
- 1982
- Keywords
- Christopher Milne,Signed books,First editions,Memoirs,Nature writing,, James Ravilious
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About the Seller
C L Hawley
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Skipton, North Yorkshire
About C L Hawley
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- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- Title Page
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- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- 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...
- 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...
- Half Title
- The blank front page which appears just prior to the title page, and typically contains only the title of the book, although, at...
- Tail
- The heel of the spine.
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