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Thackeray
by D.J. Taylor
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fine Condition/Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0701162317
- ISBN 13
- 9780701162313
- Seller
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King River, Western Australia, Australia
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About This Item
Chatto & Windus, London, 1999. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine Condition/Very Good. First impression. Size: Octavo (standard book size). 494 pages. Text body is clean, and free from previous owner annotation, underlining and highlighting. Binding is tight, covers and spine fully intact. No foxing in this copy. Dust jacket is in very good condition save a small closed tear at the top of the spine. All edges clean, neat and free of foxing. A fine unread copy.. This book is available and ready to be shipped.. William Makepeace Thackeray 1811-1863. In this acclaimed biography of the 19th-century author of "Vanity Fair," the first major study in twenty years, D.J. Taylor paints a compelling portrait of the endearing, exasperating, paradoxical figure. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilogram. Category: Biography & Autobiography; Britain/UK; 19th century; ISBN: 0701162317. ISBN/EAN: 9780701162313. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 8830. . 9780701162313
Synopsis
O.J. Taylor is the author of four novels, most recently Trespass , and several works of non-fiction including the controversial A Vain Conceit and After the War: The Novel in England Since 1945 .
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Details
- Bookseller
- Great Southern Books
(AU)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 8830
- Title
- Thackeray
- Author
- D.J. Taylor
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine Condition
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0701162317
- ISBN 13
- 9780701162313
- Publisher
- Chatto & Windus
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1999
- Keywords
- BZDB137 william makepeace thackeray, d.j. taylor, biography, vanity fair, novelist, british literature, Biography & Autobiography; Britain/UK; 19th century; ISBN: 0701162317 EAN: 9780701162313 D.J. Taylor Thackeray
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