London. The Biography. [Second Impression]. NEAR FINE COPY IN DUSTWRAPPER
by ACKROYD Peter
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- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Thakeham, West Sussex, United Kingdom
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About This Item
Chatto & Windus,, [2000]. Roy. 8vo., Second Impression, with 33 coloured plates on 16, 32 monochrome plates on 16, 3 full-page maps (2 double-page) in the text and pictorial endpapers; grey cloth, backstrip lettered in silver, a near fine copy in price-clipped dustwrapper. Splendid account enlivened by the author's infectious belief in the close relationship between past and present. Published a month after the first edition.
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- Bookseller
- Island Books (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 16337
- Title
- London. The Biography. [Second Impression]. NEAR FINE COPY IN DUSTWRAPPER
- Author
- ACKROYD Peter
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Chatto & Windus,
- Date Published
- [2000]
- Keywords
- topography, london, ackroyd, peter ackroyd
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