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The National Wealth
by Hobson., Dominic
- Used
- first
- Condition
- F/F/F/FINE
- ISBN 10
- 0002559137
- ISBN 13
- 9780002559133
- Seller
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Salisbury, Wiltshire, United Kingdom
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About This Item
HARDBACK "HEAVY BOOK," SHIPPED FROM THE UK* Edition: 1st. Thus. * Impression: 1st. FNL.* Date of Publication: 1999 * Publisher: Harper Collins.* Binding and cover condition: Black cloth covered boards, gilt title to spine only. No bumps or rubs, minimally dusty. FINE.* Jacket condition: Colour illustrated dust wrapper showing Brittania. Red & dark brown titles to face with yellow to spine. Yellow and orange ground. NOT PRICE CLIPPED, showing a shelf price of £19.99 . Minimal shelf wear to bottom edges now re-inforced and in a clear un-attached protective wrapper. FINE. * Contents condition: PRIVATE COPY NOT EX-LIBRARY. Coloured end papers (olive). Clean, crisp, tight and bright with no reading wear, small pencil owners name erased from half title, no marks to text, no other visible faults. FINE.* Illustrations: None. * Pages: 1181 pp. text. lxix pp. appendices. notes, bibliography & index at rear.* Description: An unique data-base, a valuable source of information about British money and careers for anyone from school-leavers to foreign diplomats …. A kind of Domesday Book of financial ownership … a tour-de-force Anthony Sampson, Independent.* A FINE copy with NO MAJOR FAULTS. Dust jacket now in clear un-attached protective wrapper.*
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- Bookseller
- Cocksparrow Books
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 10371
- Title
- The National Wealth
- Author
- Hobson., Dominic
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - F/F/F
- Jacket Condition
- FINE
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition, 1st. Imp. FNL.
- ISBN 10
- 0002559137
- ISBN 13
- 9780002559133
- Publisher
- Harper Collins.
- Place of Publication
- London UK.
- Date Published
- 2001
- Pages
- 1250
- Keywords
- Finance, Economics, Database.
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- Cloth
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- Shelf Wear
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- Bumps
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- Fine
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- Spine
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- Jacket
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