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English Society in the Eleventh Century: Essays in English Mediaeval History
by Vinogradoff, Paul
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Used - Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0198213808
- ISBN 13
- 9780198213802
- Seller
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Chicago, Illinois, United States
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About This Item
Oxford at the Clarendon Press. Used - Very Good. 1968. First Edition. hardcover. Cloth, dj. Octavo. xii & 599 pp. Some shelf wear and foxing & toning to dust jacket, with a significant crease to spine. Foxing to edges of text block. Price clipped. Bookplate to front pastedown. Penciled notations to ffep. Altogether a copy in Very Good condition. Very Good. (Subject: Medieval, Britain & Ireland).
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- Bookseller
- Powell's Bookstores Chicago
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- C62096
- Title
- English Society in the Eleventh Century: Essays in English Mediaeval History
- Author
- Vinogradoff, Paul
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0198213808
- ISBN 13
- 9780198213802
- Publisher
- Oxford at the Clarendon Press
- Place of Publication
- London
- This edition first published
- 1968-01
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