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Buy this book on-line ATTERBURY**, PAUL: : THE WAY WE WERE ON HOLIDAY: Remembering yesterday's holidays. [Author SIGNED ephemera.]UK.BASINGSTOKE,HANTS.AA PUBLISHING 2008. ISBN 9780749558550.
UK,landscape rectangular Qrto HB+dw/dj, SIGNED,1st edn.FINE+/NFINE.No owner inscrptn,but author's calligraphic handwritten,blue inked warm dedication and signature: 'To Ron,with best wishes for your birthday from Paul Atterbury.' to back of an unused postcard which has been sellotaped in to front pastedown,and no price-clip to dw/dj.Bright,crisp,clean, glossy laminated,colour beach holiday photographic illustrated dw/dj - design repeated to sharp-cornered,immaculate glazed bds beneath - with gilt coloured and white lettering,a green+white chequered headband and immaculate pale yellow eps; with negligible shelf-wear and some minimal creasing to edges and corners - no nicks or tears present.Both head+foot of spine/backstrip of dw/dj minisculely bumped with reciprocal creasing.Top+ fore- edges bright and clean; contents bright, tight,clean - pristine - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners, would appear unread - apart from my own collation.UK,landscape Qrto HB+dw/dj, SIGNED,1st edn,8-224pp [paginated] includes 8 sections: The Holiday Tradition,Where We Stayed,What We Wore, Touring,At The Seaside,The Great Outdoors, Something Different,Going Abroad, illustrated with a profuse mixture of contemporary colour+b/w ephemera illustrations,monochrome+colour photographs/adverts etc.,and an index.Plus [unpaginated] half-title+title pages, double-page content list/table. See also,my book ID's rja734717,rja734817 and rja749617 for other/similar Paul Atterbury railway titles as UK,HB+dw/dj, SIGNED or unsigned titles/1st edns.For railway-related books/tittles,please search my GENERAL ctalogue.
This delightful book is a treasure trove of holiday memories: of days on the beach (and what we wore there),of picnics in the woods,of camping and caravanning,of touring by car or bicycle,of walks in the hills and outings in sailing boats,of travel,hotels and boarding houses,of resorts of all kinds,of cruising and of the early days of travel abroad,before cheap flights and package tours changed the holiday for ever.
We all carry memories of holidays from childhood onward,brought to life by family photographs - many taken with the first generation of cheap and foolproof cameras - and scrapbook ephemera such as old postcards,brochures,tickets and luggage labels.A quintessentially British book, whose every page spills over with evocative images.For anyone who went on holiday in Britain between the Edwardian era and the 1960's - a feast of nostalgia. A unique,and uncommon SIGNED 1st edn.
Paul Atterbury is probably familiar to many as a long-standing member of the team of experts on BBC TV's 'Antique Roadshow' and someone who has always appreciated the importance of ephemera in telling the story of domestic life in the 20thC.
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