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COOPER**, JILLY: : ARAMINTA'S WEDDING or A Fortune Secured: A COUNTRY HOUSE EXTRAVAGANZA

LONDON.METHUEN,1993.

ISBN 0413668401.

UK,Qrto HB+dw/dj,1st edn.FINE/FINE.No owner inscrptn but price-clip to dw/dj.Bright,crisp, clean,glossy laminated,colour,pictorial wrap-around artwork illustrated dw/dj,by Sue Macartney-Snape; with negligible shelf-wear and creasing to edges and corners - no nicks or tears present.Both head+foot of spine/backstrip minimally bumped with reciprocal creasing.Top+ fore-edges bright and clean; contents bright, tight and near pristine - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners - possibly an unread copy? Sharp-cornered,bright,clean, publisher's original red cloth boards with bright,crisp,white ink blocked letters to spine/backstrip and immaculate plain white endpapers.UK,Qrto HB+dw/dj,1st edn,1-183pp [paginated] includes 45 chapters,profuse full-colour part+full-page caricatures,colour illustrated chapter head-pieces by Sue Macartney-Snape throughout the text and book; plus [unpaginated] colour vignetted half-title+ title pages,artist's dedication and author's note. Illustrator's first book,and her paintings/ caricatures of English social life are widely collected,as are her other illustrated books,in conjunction with Victoria Mathers.See rja28338, rja29718, rja388911, rja392611, and rja392711. Flatgrove,the most beautiful house in Lincolnshire,and home of Rufus,fifth Earl of Atherstone,is seriously cold in winter,the sort of place Eskimos send their children to as punishment. It is also a prize inheritance.Though married four times,Rufus has no son and gloomily contemplates his estate passing into the hands of his large,plain,good-natured daughter, Araminta,and her greedy and boring cousin,Piggy Atherstone,who is determined to marry her. Quite early in the season,however,Piggy acquires a serious rival in Bounder Cartwright,a debonair money-market gambler,whose sexual conquests are as prolific as his investments are suddenly catastrophic.Bounder finds Araminta's prospects devastatingly attractive.By Ascot he has won the day and the wedding is fixed for September. Then at the last minute the events of the previous Boxing Night catch up with the Atherstones in a surprising way.Will the wedding take place or not? The combination of Jilly Cooper's leisurely and irreverent tale of country house life with the colourful and sharply observed paintings of Sue Macartney-Snape which inspired it, presents a wickedly funny portrait of the English upper classes at play. 'Araminta's Wedding' is irresistible fireside reading for even the coldest of stately homes. Please contact seller,because of the lighter weight of this item,for correct shipping/P+p quotes - particularly ALL overseas buyers - BEFORE ordering through the order page! ** N.B. ALL buyers please note,stocks' actual shipping/P+p costs are adjusted and any difference is refunded,after order's receipt and before the order's despatch,especially if the item(s) are offered either P+p included/FREE. ** N.B. US/Canada customers please be aware: Standard AIRMAIL postage from UK to these destinations can now cost more than the price of the book! If speed is not of the essence, then Economy rate is recommended - at approx. anything from a 1/3rd to 1/2 of the standard AIR quote/rate - sometimes arriving sooner than the 42 days - but not always.

UK,Qrto HB+dw/dj,1st edn.
Not SIGNED.

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