Following on in the same vain as The Joy of Sheds, The Joy of Pubs is an intoxicating publication detailing everything and anything you want to know about pubs. It celebrates the many facets of the traditional British pub over the years, with chapters on: Pub Characters, Pub Games, Pub Fiddles (how the licensee has shafted his customers over the years), Pub Teams and Pub History from Geoffrey Chaucer to Jeffrey Bernard. It features the great pubs of literature - Robert Louis Stevenson's Admiral Benbow, Daphne du Maurier's ...
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Following on in the same vain as The Joy of Sheds, The Joy of Pubs is an intoxicating publication detailing everything and anything you want to know about pubs. It celebrates the many facets of the traditional British pub over the years, with chapters on: Pub Characters, Pub Games, Pub Fiddles (how the licensee has shafted his customers over the years), Pub Teams and Pub History from Geoffrey Chaucer to Jeffrey Bernard. It features the great pubs of literature - Robert Louis Stevenson's Admiral Benbow, Daphne du Maurier's Jamaica Inn and Charles Dickens' The Grapes; the great pubs of film - The Crown Inn at Amersham (Four Weddings and a Funeral), the Crown Inn at Wells (Hot Fuzz); the great pubs of TV - apart from the Rover's Return, Queen Vic and Woolpack. It features tales of barring, of dodgy deals of riotous lock-ins and of strange hauntings. The perfect present for anyone who loves their pub or just the idea that they have a pub. Word count: 30,000
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Fine. Sewn binding. Paper over boards. 157 p. Contains: Illustrations, black & white. In Stock. 100% Money Back Guarantee. Brand New, Perfect Condition, allow 4-14 business days for standard shipping. To Alaska, Hawaii, U.S. protectorate, P.O. box, and APO/FPO addresses allow 4-28 business days for Standard shipping. No expedited shipping. All orders placed with expedited shipping will be cancelled. Over 3, 000, 000 happy customers.
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Very good. Published by Anova Books in 2013. Hardcover copy in very good condition. No marks or writing inside the book. Slight wear on spine's top and bottom edges. 160 pages, including illustrations on just about every page. Everything you wanted to know about Britain's favorite drinking establishment. This book is a glorious and irreverent miscellany of pub information, from the origins of bizarre pub names to the history of pub games. Packed with pub facts-there's the oldest, smallest, biggest, highest, lowest, and most remote pubs in Britain. Find out the real-life pubs that inspired Dickens, Hardy, and Orwell or retrace the (staggering) steps of Oliver Reed's favorite pub crawl.
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Like New. Num Pages: 160 pages, Over 20 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBK; WH; WTHR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 137 x 198 x 16. Weight in Grams: 234. Fine in fine illustrated covers. 2013. Hardcover.....We ship daily from our Bookshop.
Add this copy of The Joy of Pubs: Because a Man's Place is in the Pub to cart. $14.51, very good condition, Sold by Kennys.ie rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Galway, IRELAND, published 2013 by Portico Books.
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Very Good. Num Pages: 160 pages, Over 20 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBK; WH; WTHR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 137 x 198 x 16. Weight in Grams: 234. Good clean copy with some minor shelf wear. 2013. Hardcover.....We ship daily from our Bookshop.