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THOMAS**, LESLIE: : The Hidden Places of Britain - A Celebration

LONDON.ARLINGTON BOOKS (PUBLISHER'S) LTD.,1981.

ISBN 0851405428.

UK,slim Qrto HB+dw/dj,1st edn.FINE/NFINE.No owner inscrptn,but price-clipped dw/dj,with ghost residue of either sellotape(?) or adhesive residue of publisher's sticker price label to front,inner flap of dw/djs' lower corner,just above removed,printed price.Bright,crisp,clean, glossy laminated,scenic colour photographic illustrated dw/dj panels and white lettering; with negligible shelf-wear and creasing to edges and corners - no major tears - though there is a small,closed tear/nick to top corner of rear inner flap of dw/dj - the only tear,or indeed, damage! There is no sunning/fading to the dw/dj at all.Top+fore-edges clean; contents bright, tight,solid and sound,no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners - possibly an unread example? Bright,crisp,clean,sharp-cornered, publisher's,original plain green,weave-textured cloth bds,with bright,crisp,blocked gilt letters to spine/backstrip and immaculate green+black map (of Great Britain) illustrated endpapers.UK, slim Qrto HB+dw/dj,1st edn,10-256pp [paginated] includes author intro,13 chapters,13 full-page b/w line illus by Shirley Felts,profuse b/w+ colour photographs by Peter Cheze-Brown interspersed throughout the text and the book, and an index.Plus [unpaginated],half-title+title pages, dedication,and contents list/table. Some men,even in these times,are dreamers.They cannot help it.And when the dreamer has a feel for travel,an ear for a story and a pen with a lyrical touch, the result is the pure enchantment of 'The Hidden Places of Britain'. The success that Leslie Thomas has achieved with his novels has afforded him the freedom to leave his study at intervals and travel to the last,remote places of the British Isles.He describes his book as a celebration and adds that it is a way of getting out of the office. The traveller's tales,poetic,funny,always absorbing,were experienced and written about over a period of almost ten years.In a lifetime of journeying around the world,Leslie Thomas was always aware that the places he most wanted to visit were the out-of-the-way corners of his own country,the surprising parts of Britain. Thus,after landing on many exotic tropical islands,he wrote 'Some Lovely Islands' which was about the oddments of land dotted about our own coasts,with not a palm tree among them. 'The Hidden Places of Britain' is another pilgrimage to surprising places: the jungle of the Oxford Canal,where he was tempted to look for Colonel Fawcett; a heronry in wildest Kent; a deserted island where the bible remains in the church and the blackboard in the schoolroom; the hill where a hermit lived measuring the rain; the shore where the Russians landed - with guns. Leslie Thomas's adventures range from the first street in England - Cape Cornwall Street, St Just - to Muckle Flugga lighthouse in the windy north of Shetland,taking in lofty Allendale Town,which claims to be at the very center of Britain. Wherever it roams,'The Hidden Places of Britain' is written (and illustrated with great beauty by the camera of Peter Cheze-Brown and the elegant pen of Shirley Fekts) for those who love the romance of strange places and will enjoy the poetic gift of the dreamer who finds them. Please contact seller,for correct shipping/P+p quotes - particularly ALL overseas customers - BEFORE ordering through the order page! ** N.B. ALL buyers please note,stocks' actual shipping/P+p costs are adjusted and any difference is refunded,after order's receipt and before the order's despatch,especially if the item(s) are offered either P+p included/FREE. ** N.B. US/Canada customers please be aware: Standard AIRMAIL postage from UK to these destinations can now cost more than the price of the book! If speed is not of the essence,then Economy rate is recommended - at approx. anything from a 1/3rd to 1/2 of the standard AIR quote/rate - sometimes arriving sooner than the 42 days - but not always.

UK,Qrto HB+dw/dj,1st edn.
Not SIGNED.

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