{"product_id":"castle-on-the-run-by-gay-mcinnes-scarce-first-edition","title":"Castle on the Run by Gay McInnes. SCARCE first edition.","description":"\u003cp\u003eCastle on the Run by Gay McInnes. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePublisher: Pegasus, New Zealand, 1969, SCARCE first edition. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eGood hardback with jacket. Binding firm, slight lean to spine, light foxing to end-papers and edges, approx 10 pages have a small closed tear to top margin, inscription blacked out inside front board and to rear end-paper, owner stamp to ffep. \u003cbr\u003eJacket is rubbed, chipped and marked with fading to spine.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCastle on the Run is a woman's cool but loving look over her shoulder at a girl growing up in the big brick homestead on the celebrated Earnscleugh station in Central Otago. She remembers verandah cushions stuffed with rose petals, cascades of wisteria that drove honey bees wild and brought sightseers from far and near. But this is not another account of picturesque back country life - though heaven knows there was pioneering enough when Grandfather Spain first took up some seventy thousand acres of abandoned sheep country, it's bare hills moving with rabbits. By the 1930's Earnscleugh's hey-day was fading. A brick wall split both house and family; just as the child's lonely world was divided between golden days running wild and the stern routine of a convent school. Here is a brilliantly sharp sensitive picture of real people and places, observed with affectionate candour.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e188 pages.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eALL PHOTOS ARE OF THE ACTUAL BOOK. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAll books are sent with free courier postage within New Zealand.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Phoenix Books NZ","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50449597104375,"sku":null,"price":406.0,"currency_code":"CNY","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0603\/7687\/5255\/files\/IMG_3633_33d32c96-5eac-4c63-b9c8-40189a309d07.jpg?v=1769348158","url":"https:\/\/phoenixbooksnz.com\/en-cn\/products\/castle-on-the-run-by-gay-mcinnes-scarce-first-edition","provider":"Phoenix Books NZ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}