Dictionary of Foreign Phrases and Classical Quotations: New and Revised Edition
by Jones, Hugh Percy (Ed)
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very good
- Seller
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About This Item
Edinburgh: John Gtant, 1923. Later printing. Hardcover. Very good. 8vo. Pp xx + 532. Blue cloth boards stamped in gilt on the spine. A clean, unmarked and tightly bound copy without dust jacket. Spine lightly sunned. Name of ownership on the front free endpaper.
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- Bookseller
- The Glass Key (FR)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 102222
- Title
- Dictionary of Foreign Phrases and Classical Quotations: New and Revised Edition
- Author
- Jones, Hugh Percy (Ed)
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Later printing
- Publisher
- John Gtant
- Place of Publication
- Edinburgh
- Date Published
- 1923
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- Gilt
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- Spine
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