Description
Timber Press, Published 2003. Hardcover, 320 pp.; 21 cm; seventh printing; illustrated with line drawings by William McLaren, illustrated endpapers.
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Condition & notes
In Very Good condition with a Very Good dust jacket. Brown paper-covered boards with black lettering on spine; mild shelf wear with some color loss to corner tips and spine ends. Binding is tight. Pages clean and unmarked. Illustrated dust jacket shows a few small nicks and creasing along edges, mild shelf wear. Now in an archival quality (removable) Brodart cover. Timber Press's facsimile reprint of the 1951 Jonathan Cape edition, with a new foreword by Ann Lovejoy and a new index by Roy C. Dicks. First volume of Nichols's Merry Hall trilogy, recounting the restoration of a run-down Georgian manor house and its garden in postwar England; written as narrative rather than instruction, high-spirited and waspishly funny, carrying the original William McLaren drawings throughout.