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A Cornishman at Oxford (The Education of a Cornishman)

Author(s): Rowse, A L
Binding: Hardcover
Volume Condition: Very Good
Dust Jacket: Yes
Dust Jacket Condition: Good
Dust Jacket Protection: N/A
Edition: 1st Edition
Impression: 1st Impression
Signature: None
Language: English
Publisher Name: Jonathan Cape
Publication Year: 1965
Publication Place: London, UK
Book ID: 030049
Catalogue(s): Autobiography and Biography

First edition, first impression.  320pp, monochrome portrait plate frontispiece.  Green cloth-covered boards with gilt titles on black relief on spine.  Top edge sprayed red. Decorated endpapers.  8vo.  Cloth slightly pushed at spine ends.  Internally neat, clean, bright and tight.  In its original, laminated dust wrapper, bumped and browned at edges, a little shelf worn and now slightly misfitting.

The second volume of A L Rowse's autobiography, following on from A Cornish Childhood, in which he recounts his transition from Cornwall to Oxford and his days at the university.  It is also an insightful portrait of a brillant generation of Oxford undergraduates.

Keywords:
Literary Biography Cornwall Oxford University

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