BECAUSE I'VE NOT BEEN THERE BEFORE
by Oswald Lewis:
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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theberton suffolk, United Kingdom
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About This Item
Duckworth London 1929 VG/Fair (dj with one large tear and few small tears upper edge with small areas of loss back cover and head of spine, few grubby marks front cover and discoloured top edges, clean blue cloth lightly discoloured head and tail of spine, patch of light shadow browning free endpapers else very clean tight and crisp with no marks or inscriptions, a very good copy) octavo 263pp. First edition. Being extracts from the correspondence of Oswald Lewis while travelling round the World in 1926-7. With 65 b/w illustrations from photographs by the Author. Travels in India, Japan, Australia, New Zealand.
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- Bookseller
- lobstabooks
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 55984
- Title
- BECAUSE I'VE NOT BEEN THERE BEFORE
- Author
- Oswald Lewis:
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Duckworth London 1929
- Bookseller catalogs
- Travel;
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theberton suffolk
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