FIREFLY GADROON - JONATHAN GASH - A LOVEJOY NARRATIVE Magpie's selection of antique information

Trouble began when what was described as a small portable Japanese box.  Maybe bamboo was sold at auction under Lovejoy's nose. He wanted the box, which was a genuine antique firefly cage, but somebody else wanted it more. Magpie's selection of antique information.

Lovejoy - unscrupulous conniver, feckless lecher, and more important, gifted visionary who loves beautiful antiques more than life itself - marshals all of his diverse skills to revenge the murder of an old friend. Jonathan Gash's entertaining expertise covers everything from Queen Anne baby walkers and stumpwork boxes to the ultimate antique: the hand-hammered silver Reverse Gadroon. This bawdy fast-paced adventure - in which the all-time scamp must confront an international ring of antiques smugglers and murderers - is an entertaining delight from start to finish.

• Hardcover: 208 pages (6TH book in the Lovejoy series)
• Publisher: Collins; First Edition edition 1982)
• Language English
• ISBN-10: 000231296

Old library hardback Binding good, pages clean and white, dustcover residues on hardback, so paperback sticked to hardbacks. No paperloss to dustcover, only cellotape attached to it.