This absorbing account of the origin and history of these strange but beguiling figures in the landscape, traces their part in art and literature.
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Gregory Holyoake is an actor, writer and photographer who began his career as a journalist writing for The Observer sharing end pages with 'Peanuts'. Gregory has been a regular contributor to Country Life, Country Homes and Interiors, The Lady and This England. He has written a trio of Kentish histories: Wellington at Walmer, The Prefab Kid and Deal, Sad Smuggling Town. He has also published a book of photographs: Kent, the County in Colour.
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Large Paperback. Zustand: Fine. First Edition, First Printing. Fine. First edition, first printing. Large paperback. PRESENTATION COPY INSCRIBED AND SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR, on half-title page. Inscription reads, 'To ------/From one Scarecrow to another!/Gregory Holyoake'. 256pp. Profusely illustrated with over 150 illustrations, many new and in colour. A well-researched and authoritative study of scarecrows: in history, in literature, on stage, film and television, in art, in the field, and scarecrow makers and festivals. With Bibliography and Index. A fine copy of a SCARCE first edition, first printing SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR. HEAVY PLEASE CONTACT US ABOUT POSTAGE. WILL BE KEPT AT COST. Presentation Copy Inscribed And Signed By Author. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 15024
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Trade Paperback. Zustand: Mint. First Edition. This copy is in mint, unread condition, bright, white, tight and square, in illustrated card covers as issued. International postal rates are calculated on a book weighing 1 Kilo, in cases where the book weighs less then postage will be reduced accordingly. Where the book weighs more than 1 Kilo increased charges will be quoted. This book is fully illustrated with the author's own photographs. Gregory Holyoake has researched and written probably the first book to include all aspects of the scarecrow from its role in primitive societies worldwide to twentieth-century literature, art, film and advertising. Gregory has dipped into the archives for further scarecrow images, and the result is an astonishingly well-documented and absorbing account of the myth, folklore and folk art which this subject represents. Gregory Holyoake is an actor, writer and photographer who began his career as a journalist writing for The Observer sharing end pages with 'Peanuts'. Gregory has been a regular contributor to Country Life, Country Homes and Interiors, The Lady and This England. He has written a trio of Kentish histories: Wellington at Walmer, The Prefab Kid and Deal, Sad Smuggling Town. He has also published a book of photographs: Kent, the County in Colour. Ref CC1. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 022841
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