VERY GOOD CONDITION

 

This sale is for a vintage hardback edition entitled “The Flower of Gloster,” by E. Temple Thurston, with an Introduction by L. T. C. Rolt, illustrated with 8 pages of new photographic plates and numerous other illustrations in the text.

 

It was published by David & Charles, of Newton Abbot, in 1972 (the FIRST EDITION was published in 1911 by Williams and Norgate, of London).

 

A superbly written and charming pre-First World War narrowboat/canal book by Ernest Temple Thurston (1879-1933) who was a prolific author of novels and plays, from which over 20 motion pictures and theatrical plays were made.

 

L. T. C. Rolt, known as Tom Rolt (1910–1974) was a prolific author on engineering subjects, industrial history, heritage railways, and canal/narrow boat/waterways books.

 

A classic in canal literature, the author tells the story of a leisurly voyage in a narrow boat with Eynsham Harry the boatman and Fanny the horse, up the Oxford Canal, along the Warwick line, and down the Stratford-upon Avon: then by Avon and Severn to the Thames and Severn Canal and so to the Thames again.

 

The book measures 8.75 inches x 5.75 inches and has 244 pages + photographic plates. 

 

The book is in good, neat and clean condition for its age, with a similarly very good original dust-jacket (price-clipped). There are NO inscriptions/book-plates and NO other ink or pencil markings in the book.  The binding is good with no loose or missing pages.

 

A wonderfully illustrated vintage edition.

 

COMBINED POSTAGE - ALL BIDDERS: We offer 20% off the total postage & packing/‘shipping’ for additional items after the cost of the heaviest book – please wait for a combined invoice.

 

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Buyer to pay postage & packing

For UK Postage: 2nd Class/Parcels = £3.10;

or 1st Class = £3.90

 

European Union Postage: = 6.95 GB Pounds

 

USA Postage: Air Mail (USA) = 13.45 GB Pounds

 

Rest of the World Postage: Air Mail (Anywhere else in the World) = 10.70 GB Pounds

 

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