9780224099455 - The Long Weekend: Life in the English Country House Between the Wars von Tinniswood, Adrian (8 Ergebnisse)

Hardcover. Zustand: As New. No Jacket. Pages are clean and are not marred by notes or folds of any kind. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Zustand: Good. 1st. Former library copy. Pages intact with minimal writing/highlighting. The binding may be loose and creased. Dust jackets/supplements are not included. Includes library markings. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

Paperback. Zustand: Fine.

Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.

Zustand: Like New. Most items will be dispatched the same or the next working day. An apparently unread copy in perfect condition. Dust cover is intact with no nicks or tears. Spine has no signs of creasing. Pages are clean and not marred by notes or folds of any kind.

Hardcover. Zustand: Near Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. 1st Edition. Green cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine. Very slight bumping to top spine end; otherwise in 'fine' condition with pages free from marks or inscriptions. Unclipped jacket with light edge wear. Please see images for further details. Synopsis: There is nothing quite as beautiful as an English country house in summer. And there has never been a summer quite like that Indian summer between the two world wars, a period of gentle decline in which the sun set slowly on the British Empire and the shadows lengthened on the lawns of a thousand stately homes. Real life in the country house during the 1920s and 1930s was not always so sunny. By turns opulent and ordinary, noble and vicious, its shadows were darker. In The Long Weekend, Adrian Tinniswood uncovers the truth about a world half-forgotten, draped in myth and hidden behind stiff upper lips and film-star smiles. Drawing on hundreds of memoirs, on unpublished letters and diaries, on the eye-witness testimonies of belted earls and unhappy heiresses and bullying butlers, The Long Weekend gives a voice to the people who inhabited this world. In a definitive social history which combines anecdote and narrative with scholarship.

Hardback in Dust Wrapper. Zustand: Very Good+. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good+. Hardback. Dust wrapper over green boards with gilt titles to the spine; Measures 9½" x 7¼" (1.7 kg); pp 406; Index; Bibliography; Includes: Photographs, black-and-white and colour, within the text; Frontispiece; Photographic lining papers; || The book is on the shelf, ready to be appropriately packed, and posted from the pastoral paradise of Peasedown St. John, Bath, by a real bookseller in a real book shop - with my personal guarantee and beady eye on the Consumer Contracts Regulations. REMEMBER! Buying my copy means the book shop Jack Russells get their supper! My Book #203178 ||.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. 1st Edition. In this book Adrian Tinniswood uncovers the truth about a world half-forgotten, draped in myth and hidden behind stiff upper lips and film-star smiles. There is a small inscription to the lower corner of the half- title page. The boards, text block and dust jacket are all square ,tight and clean. Book price includes 2nd class postage in UK only. This book is photographed as proof against in-transit damage.