Morris john morris cargill (4 risultati)

Condizione: New.

Hard Cover. Condizione: Very Good ++. Very Good -. First Edition. Hardcover with price clipped dust jacket, 435 pages;--subtitle in square brackets is from the 1970 Fontana paperback edition;---book very gently used, gentle bumps to spine ends and bottom cover corner tips, spine ever so slightly slanted, but not a trace of shelf wear, very clean and unmarked throughout; DJ gently bumped, one v-shaped chip 2 cm deep at front top spine hinge, two tears. For more Jamaican mayhem, see also our listing for Lew Anthony's Dreadlock.…

Hardcover. Condizione: Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Near Fine. 1st Edition. 8vo. Second impression. Orig. orange cloth. Map endpapers. 240 pp. [24] pp. colour photos + colour frontis. Dust jacket is age toned, with 1" tear to head of rear joint, some light bumping to extremities. Ian Fleming spent part of every year at Goldeneye, his Jamaican house in which he wrote all the James Bond books. He loved Jamaica and used to regret that there was no book on it which he considered worthy. His friend Morris Cargill, the distinguished Jamaican journalist and broadcaster, urged him to write one himself. After many conversations at Goldeneye a 'team' was collected: Ian Flaming to open the book, of course, with an account of his own relationship with Jamaica and a general picture of the pleasures of living there; Morris Cargill and the novelist John Hearne to fill in the background, historical and human; and ten other writers, either Jamaican or long-term residents of the island, chosen because of their special knowledge of and enthusiasm for various aspects of it.…

Condizione: Very Good. Second impression hard back binding in publisher's original terracotta cloth covered boards, blocked and lettered gilt back, end paper maps. 8vo. 9½'' x 6''. Contains 240 pp with colour photographs throughout. Very Good condition book in Very Good condition dust wrapper with two short closed tears to the top front cover, not price clipped, 42s, spine colours not faded. Dust wrapper supplied in archive acetate film protection. Member of the P.B.F.A. FLEMING, Ian (1908-1964).…