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THE CAMBRIDGE APOSTLES A HISTORY OF CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY'S ÉLITE INTELLECTUAL SECRET SOCIETY
by [Anthony Blunt, Guy Burgess, et al.] DEACON, Richard
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About This Item
New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1986. First American edition. Octavo. Tan cloth, black stamped spine. x,214 pp. Frontispiece. Preface, notes, bibliography, Members of the Society, and an index, with marks next to some listings, else about fine in fine dust jacket. The bookplate of noted Bloomsbury collector William Beekman affixed to the first pastedown.
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- Bookseller
- Second Wind Books LLC
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 593
- Title
- THE CAMBRIDGE APOSTLES A HISTORY OF CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY'S ÉLITE INTELLECTUAL SECRET SOCIETY
- Author
- [Anthony Blunt, Guy Burgess, et al.] DEACON, Richard
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First American edition
- Publisher
- Farrar, Straus & Giroux
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1986
- Keywords
- Spies, Blount, Burgess, Strachey, Woolf, Cambridge, sodomy
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- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Bookplate
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- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
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