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Opium and the Romantic Imagination: Addiction and Creativity in de Qincey, Coleridge, Baudelaire and Others
by Alethea Hayter
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good — in Poor Dust Wrapper. Matt paper dust wrapper has significant edgewear and is a touch faded with loss to the spine e
- ISBN 10
- 0571083609
- ISBN 13
- 9780571083602
- Seller
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Peasedown St. John, Somerset, United Kingdom
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About This Item
London: Faber & Faber, 1968. Hardback in Dust Wrapper.. Good — in Poor Dust Wrapper. Matt paper dust wrapper has significant edgewear and is a touch faded with loss to the spine ends, and the price clipped. Gently bruised at the head, tail and corners of the binding. A little age-toned at the top edge of the text block. Gift inscription to the first blank, book plate to the pastedown. The contents complete, clean and tight otherwise.. First edition (first printing). Hardback in dust wrapper (red boards with gilt titling to the spine) Physically 8¾” x 5¾” (1 kg); 388pp; Index; Includes: Black & white plates; Frontispiece; ISBN: 0-5710-8360-9 || The book is on my shelves and will be carefully packed and posted from the pastoral paradise of Peasedown St. John, Bath, by a real bookseller in a real book shop - with my personal guarantee and my beady eye on the Consumer Contracts Regulations. REMEMBER! Buying my copy means the bookshop Jack Russells get their supper! My Book #199097|| Condition:
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- Bookseller
- BookLovers of Bath
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 199097
- Title
- Opium and the Romantic Imagination: Addiction and Creativity in de Qincey, Coleridge, Baudelaire and Others
- Author
- Alethea Hayter
- Format/Binding
- Hardback in Dust Wrapper.
- Book Condition
- Used - Good — in Poor Dust Wrapper. Matt paper dust wrapper has significant edgewear and is a touch faded with loss to the spine e
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0571083609
- ISBN 13
- 9780571083602
- Publisher
- London: Faber & Faber
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1968
- Keywords
- 19th century literature, literary criticism, opium abuse, drug addicts writings, literary creativity, literary, literary romanticism, english literature, psychology creative writing, opium english literature, opium habits, writings narcotic addicts, opioi
- Bookseller catalogs
- Literary Criticism & Essays;
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