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The Armada 400th Anniversary Edition
by Mattingly, Garrett
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
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- Seller
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North Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
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About This Item
The Armada 400th Anniversary Edition, Mattingly, Garrett. Published by Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston, 1959 BOMC. Quarter brown cloth over blue boards, gilt spine titles, illustrated endpapers. 8vo 9" - 10" tall; 443 pages including color and black and white plates, notes and index. Inked name to half title and otherwise volume and unclipped jacket in fine condition. "On the four hundredth anniversary of the defeat of the Spanish Armada, here, in a new deluxe illustrated edition, is Garrett Mattingly's Pulitzer Prize-winning work, The Armada, which has been hailed as 'an historical masterpiece' (New York Times)."
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- Bookseller
- Back Lane Books (Member of IOBA)
(CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 2829
- Title
- The Armada 400th Anniversary Edition
- Author
- Mattingly, Garrett
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Bookseller catalogs
- ART, HISTORY AND POLITICS, ART; HISTORY AND POLITICS, MILITARY; MARINE ETC;
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About the Seller
Back Lane Books (Member of IOBA)
Biblio member since 2016
North Vancouver, British Columbia
About Back Lane Books (Member of IOBA)
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- Fine
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- Spine
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- Gilt
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- Cloth
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- Jacket
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