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A Walk Around the Lakes by Hunter Davies and Alfred Wainwright, Signed First Edition with Dust Jacket

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A Signed First Edition, [First Printing] of 'A Walk Around the Lakes' by Hunter Davies et al. in Very Good+ condition in a Very Good+ condition dust jacket published by Weidenfeld and Nicolson in 1979

A Walk Around the Lakes by Hunter Davies and Alfred Wainwright, First Edition with Dust Jacket

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Condition Summary: (Very Good+/Very Good+) A very tidy copy which is SIGNED by Hunter Davies on the half title page, in a very tidy dust jacket. All notable faults: Dust jacket has minor creasing on the edges

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Book Number B0005924
Title A Walk Around the Lakes
Author(s) Author: Davies, Hunter [Edward] Illustrator: Alfred Wainwright

Hunter [Edward] Davies (1936-)—British author, journalist and broadcaster born in Carlisle, perhaps best known for writing the only authorised biographies of The Beatles and Alfred Wainwright and Alfred Wainwright (1907 to 1991)—British fell walker, guidebook author and illustrator, best known for his seven-volume Pictorial Guide to the Lakeland Fells, the standard reference work to the 214 fells of the English Lake District, which are now known as 'Wainwrights'. He also wrote and illustrated numerous other books on the Lake District, Scotland, Northern England and Wales including two of his other major works, Westmorland Heritage and Wainwright in Lakeland

Edition and Format First Edition, [First Printing] Book edition identified by: Publisher's imprint information states 'First published in Great Britain in 1979 by Weidenfeld and Nicolson' and no later editions or printings stated in the publisher's imprint information. Dust jacket edition identified by: Blurb and priced 'price in UK only [line break] £6.95 net' on the front flap and Hunter Davies's bio on the rear flap

Hardcover, Octavo (20-25 cm high). Xii and 339 printed pages in publisher's original blue cloth with gilt 'A Walk Around the Lakes', 'Hunter Davies' and 'Weidenfeld & Nicolson' on the spine, in dust jacket. Contains twenty one black and white photographs, one black and white illustration by Alfred Wainwright, eleven further black and white illustrations and sixteen maps. ISBN 0297775677 [9780297775676]
Publisher(s) Weidenfeld and Nicolson, London, 1979

Weidenfeld and Nicholson—A British publisher of fiction and reference books founded by George Weidenfeld and Nigel Nicolson.

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