Verlag: Viking, Markham, Ontario, 1988
ISBN 10: 0670817562 ISBN 13: 9780670817566
Anbieter: Capricorn Books, Oakville, ON, Kanada
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Hard Cover. Zustand: Very Good+. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. First Canadian Edition. 224 pp, 8vo (8 3/4" H). Boldly inscribed and dated by author on title page. "In sight of green sugar-cane fields and the sea, the Rum Shop and the Tailor Shop are awash with buckshee rum and male talk. While Sarge (known to have broken an innocent man's legs with his truncheon) holds forth about blasted 'properganda', Seabert the Tailor has ambitions for a seat in Parliament and his eye on a big car. As a young man, Michael William Wilberforce Thorne - 'Boy' to the villagers - learns about life from these vibrant characters. Coming of age in the Barbados of the 1950s, he is both horrified and fascinated by the political scheming that surrounds him. After spending several years at a Canadian university on a scholarship, Boy returns to his country with a sharper awareness of its people and possibilities. When an election is called and this tiny, colonial island hovers on the brink of a new political dawn, he is treated as a political saviour, the first of a new breed. This rich novel, at once serious and hilariously funny, gives a wonderfully exuberant picture of life in Barbados in the early 1950s, painted with unflagging humour and zest." Dust jacket has very light rubbing, very light wrinkling at top of spine and flap-folds. Inscribed By Author.
Verlag: Oxford University Press, London etc., 1964
Anbieter: Antiquariat Rolf Bulang, Dautphetal, Deutschland
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Softcover. Zustand: Gut. Erste Ausgabe. viii, 103 S. Orig.-Broschur. Mit eigenhändiger, persönlicher Widmung des englischen Lyrikers Charles Tomlinson (1927-2015) für seinen ersten deutschen Übersetzer Karl Darenberg und seine Frau: "Xmas 1964 with lots of love, Charles." Dedication copy to Ch. Tomlinson's first German translator and his wife; some underlineings in the contents pages, otherwise a good copy. Mit Unterstreichungen im Inhaltsverzeichnis, sonst gut erhaltenes Exemplar mit nur leichten Gebrauchsspuren. Widmung des Verfassers.