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India Britannica
by Moorhouse, Geoffrey
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good Condition/Good
- Seller
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Yungaburra, Queensland, Australia
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About This Item
Book Club Associates, 1983. First Edition . Hardcover (Original Cloth). Good Condition/Good. Quarto. Binding is tight, but spine is slightly cocked Text body is clean and free from previous owner annotation, underlining and highlighting Endpapers have some faint foxing Top edge has some foxing, other edges neat and clean Boards have some edge wear, esp. on the top edge From the beginnings of the East India Company in the seventeenth century down to February 28, 1948, when the Somerset Light Infantry became the last British soldiers to leave Indian soil, Moorhouse charts the course of British rule in India. B & W photos and illustrations and colour photos and illustrations
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Details
- Seller
- Spencer and Murphy Booksellers
(AU)
- Seller's Inventory #
- 55357
- Title
- India Britannica
- Author
- Moorhouse, Geoffrey
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover (Original Cloth)
- Book Condition
- Used - Good Condition
- Jacket Condition
- Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Book Club Associates
- Date Published
- 1983
- Pages
- 288
- Weight
- 99.99 lbs
- Keywords
- India India, British, East India Company
- Size
- Quarto
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Spencer and Murphy Booksellers
Biblio member since 2020
Yungaburra, Queensland
About Spencer and Murphy Booksellers
Books sourced from all over the world adorn our shelves. We carry a general range of books, some 18,000, including fiction and non-fiction in all genres. We stock collectibles, rare and antiquarian and many out-of-print books. Lonely Planet described Spencer & Murphy Booksellers as "the best bookshop in the North" and we are known as a treasure trove of books and often as Aladdin's Cave of Books.
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- E.P.
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- Cocked
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