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Caesar's Vast Ghost. Aspects of Provence. Photographs by Harry Peccinotti. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
by DURRELL Lawrence
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Thakeham, West Sussex, United Kingdom
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About This Item
Faber,, [1990]. 4to., First Edition, with coloured frontispiece, numerous coloured photographs (a number full-page) in the text and pictorial endpapers; blue cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper, the latter as usual lightly sunned at backstrip.
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- Bookseller
- Island Books
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 47464
- Title
- Caesar's Vast Ghost. Aspects of Provence. Photographs by Harry Peccinotti. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
- Author
- DURRELL Lawrence
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Faber,
- Date Published
- [1990]
- Keywords
- modern first editions, modern firsts, durrell, lawrence durrell, harry peccinotti, provence, carmargue
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Island Books
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Thakeham, West Sussex
About Island Books
Fine and Rare Books at the foot of the South Downs
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- First Edition
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- Fine
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- Sunned
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- Gilt
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- Dustwrapper
- Also known as book jacket, dust cover, or dust wrapper, a dust jacket is a protective and decorative cover for a book that is...
- Cloth
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