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The Fringes Of Power. 10 Downing Street Diaries 1939-1955
by Colville, John
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- VG+/VG/GD
- ISBN 10
- 0393022234
- ISBN 13
- 9780393022230
- Seller
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Salisbury, Wiltshire, United Kingdom
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About This Item
HARDBACK SHIPPED FROM THE UK* Edition: 1st.* Imp: 2nd.* Date of Publication: 1985* Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton.* Binding and cover condition: Black cloth, gilt title to spine. No bumps, minimal shelf wear & slight rubs to edges and corners. VG* Jacket condition: Text-illustrated dust wrapper with yellow titles and panels to spine and face. NOT PRICE CLIPPED, showing shelf price of £14.95 on publisher?s adhesive label. Some shelf wear to top & bottom edges and to head & tail of spine. Spine slightly faded and overall somewhat grubby. GD* Contents condition: PRIVATE COPY NOT EX-LIBRARY. Printed facsimile letters to end papers. Clean, crisp, tight and bright with no reading wear, no marks to text, top and fore-edge somewhat grubby, otherwise no visible faults. VG+* Illustrations: 12pp. B/w photos within text.* Pages: 710 pp. text. xc pp. appendices, bibliography & index at rear.* Description: A bestseller in the hardcover edition, "this witty, graceful, irreverent and compulsively readable diary by Winston Churchill's wartime private secretary throws fascinating new light on the great British leader and on the inner history of the second World War".-Arthur Schlesinger, Jr.-.* A NEAR VG copy of the 1st./2nd. with some wear and age particularly to dust jacket.*
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- Bookseller
- Cocksparrow Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 4595
- Title
- The Fringes Of Power. 10 Downing Street Diaries 1939-1955
- Author
- Colville, John
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - VG+/VG/GD
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition, 2nd . Imp.
- ISBN 10
- 0393022234
- ISBN 13
- 9780393022230
- Publisher
- W. W. Norton & Company
- Place of Publication
- London UK 800
- Date Published
- 1985-01-01
- Size
- 23.6 x 15 x 6.1 cm
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