Buy this book on-line STRAWBRIDGE**, DICK and ANGEL: : A YEAR AT THE CHATEAU.LONDON.SEVEN DIALS/an imprint of Orion Publishing Group Ltd.,2010. ISBN 9781841884615.
UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,illustrated,1st edn,3rd imp. [Complete number line 3 5 7 9 10 8 6 4,so 1st edn,3rd impression.] NMINT/NMINT. No owner inscrptn and no price-clip to dw/dj.Bright, crisp,clean,matt,co-author's familial colour portrait photograph,standing posed in front of their chateau to front panel of dw/dj,with capitalised,black-lettered AS SEEN ON THE HIT CHANNEL 4 SHOW legend to top edge; capitalised, bright,crisp,embossed gilt-lettered title and co-author's black-lettered name to lower edge.A yellow spine/backstrip with flat printed capitalised,bronze gilt-lettered title,and authors' similarly coloured+lettered names as the front's and publisher's capitalised maroon-lettered name and maroon coloured colophon to foot of same,rear panel of dw/dj with front's similar,familial colour portrait photograph,but taken from the rear and behind them,as they walk towards their chateau,with a black-lettered prose extract from the book to top edge. Negligible shelf-wear to edges and corners - no nicks,tears or splits present.Top+fore-edges bright,crisp and clean without ageing/toning,or any foxing/spotting; contents bright,tight, clean,solid and sound – pristine with no dog-ear reading creases to any pages’ corners,unread other than my own collation.Publisher’s bright, crisp,clean/unblemished,sharp-cornered,original plain royal blue cloth boards with bright,crisp, blocked bronze gilt-lettered spine/backstrip,and immaculate repeated,Chateau's beige+brown floor plan illustrated endpapers.UK,8vo HB+dw/dj, illustrated,1st edn,3rd imp,ix-xpp+1-291pp [paginated] includes a Foreword,an Introduction both with either bold text - Angel's recounting - and non-bold text is Dick recounting their story throughout the book,story over a year with 12 monthly chapters each with b/w line illustrated headpiece - January to December,32pp contemporary biographical familial,architecture renovations and marriage's colour photographs over 4 blocks of 8pp apiece,interspersed throughout the book,an Afrterword, Acknowledgements and an About Us page.Plus [unpaginated] half-title+title pages,a dedication,and a Contents list/table.
See also my book ID rja1155124 fora 2nd title/bbok 'LIVING the CHATEAU DREAM',A UKK,8vo HB+dw/dj+co-authors' SIGNED,illustrated,book-related colour illustrated,card bookmark.
Visually,the external appearance is exceptional,and particularly internally,is also in an exceptional condition/state of preservation and presentation for a book of it’s 14-year old age.It really is an exceptional, exemplary example for it’s brightnesss, cleanliness and lack of any detracting faults thatwould usually encountered in a book of its age.
Like many couples,Dick and Angel had long dreamed of living in France,but where others might settle for a modest bolthole in the French countryside,the Strawbridges fell in love with a 19thC fairytale chteau,complete with 45 rooms, seven outbuildings,12 acres of land and its own moat.
Throwing caution to the wind,Dick and Angel swapped their two-bedroom flat in East London for an abandoned and derelict castle in the heart of the Loire valley and embarked on the adventure of a lifetime with their two young children Arthur and Dorothy.
Sharing their full journey for the first time, A Year at the Chateau follows Dick and Angel from when they first moved to France in the depths of winter and found bedrooms infested with flies,turrets inhabited by bats,the wind rattling through cracked windows,and just one working toilet,which flushed into the moat, through to the monumental efforts that went into readying the chateau for their unforgettable wedding and their incredibly special first Christmas.
Along the way we'll read glorious descriptions of rural life in France,with charming characters,delicious food and wonderful seasonal produce,together with the extraordinary list of renovations and restorations Dick and Angel completed,many of which were never shown on TV.
As warm and entertaining as their much-loved show,'A Year at the Chateau' is a truly irresistible story of adventure and heart,epic ambitions and a huge amount of hard graft.
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