Buy this book on-line HUXLEY, ELSPETH: : THE PRINCE BUYS THE MANOR - An ExtravaganzaLONDON.CHATTO & WINDUS,1982. ISBN 0701126515.
UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.VG/VG.No owner inscrptn,and no price-clip to dw/dj.Pink and black pictorial illustrated dw/dj by John Sutcliffe; with light bumping and creases to both head+foot of spine/ backstrip and a small closed tear to bottom front edge.The inner flaps have been secured to internal endpapers with Scotch Magic tape.Fore-edges lightly aged.Pink paper covered boards with gilt letters to spine/backstrip and plain white
endpapers.UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn,215pp.
Shipton Wick is a sleepy,decidely old- fashioned market town in the smartest part
of the Cotswolds; and nothing could be better calculated to drive its denizens into a frenzy of anxious snobbery and eager jostling for position than the decision by a Royal Prince to buy nearby Cantilevre Manor.From the locals at the Goat and Compasses to the Wodehousian landlords of neighbouring estates - by way
of the workers at Buggin's Brushes,the town's one concession to modernity - the place is suddenly abuzz with gossip and intrigue: daughters are groomed to catch the royal eye,old rivalries are sharpened,
debate rages keenly within the Town Council about the most appropriate means of honouring the princely presence.Add to an already inflammable situation hunt saboteurs led by the appalling Judy Mustard,a group of (somewhat incompetent)
international terrorists,Save the Badger campaigners,a dubiously bearded guru and his chanting followers,and the booming, bemedalled figure of General Mkubwa,the prince's unusual aide-de-camp from the New Commonwealth (who hoves up with a gun- toting bodyguard,nurses an unrequited passion for the luckless local policewoman,and longs to make an official
visit to Lotts Road Power Station),and the scene is set for a comic extravaganza of hugely entertaining proportions.
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