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EVERY IDLE DREAM (PRESENTATION COPY FROM E.W. SWANTON)

EVERY IDLE DREAM (PRESENTATION COPY FROM E.W. SWANTON)

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'In this book Mr Darwin tries his hand for the first time at the long essay, covering a diversity of topics in life and literature in the same easy, original way, setting the meanings behind familiar things and expressing them in his exquisitely right and simple style'.

8vo. 255pp. Drawings at chapter heads. Dust-wrapper, lightly rubbed to edges and spine. Good condition. This copy was presented by Jim Swanton in 1948 to another great cricket writer and his close friend, John Woodcock. From Woodcock's personal collection. [D&M, 14010]

Date
1948
Publisher
Collins
Author
Bernard DARWIN

£20.00 (Code: 83534)

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