Horace Walpole: a Biography
by Ketton-Cremer, R. W
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- Good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good /No Jacket
- Seller
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Hay-on-Wye, Powys, United Kingdom
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About This Item
London, UK: Duckworth. 368 pp. b/w frontis. & illus.; fold-out genealogical table to back. Blue cloth cover with gilt lettering to spine, no DJ. Cover slightly grubby and damp-stained, spine sunned. Head and tail of spine slightly scuffed, corners bumped. Pages toned. Light foxing to endpapers, prelims and outer page edges o/w contents in very good condition, clean and unmarked. . Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 1940.
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- Bookseller
- Broad Street Book Centre (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 110968
- Title
- Horace Walpole: a Biography
- Author
- Ketton-Cremer, R. W
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Publisher
- Duckworth
- Place of Publication
- London, UK
- Date Published
- 1940
- Pages
- 368
- Size
- 218mm x 145mm.
- Keywords
- social political history biography Horace Walpole Unit Five
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Hay-on-Wye, Powys
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