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The Best Short Stories of Rider Haggard
by H Rider Haggard (edited By Peter Haining)
- Used
- Hardcover
- First
- Condition
- G/G
- ISBN 10
- 0718120108
- ISBN 13
- 9780718120108
- Seller
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Lutterworth, Leicestershire
Item Price:
$17.13
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About This Item
London: Michael Joseph, 1981. First edition of this selection, foreword by Hammond Innes. Green covers with gilt lettering to spine, 255pp. Ex-library copy with usual stamps and marks, remains of date sticker on ffep, page edges a tad grubby, but otherwise a solid book. Intact DJ has light rubbing and wear to extremities, but overall a reasonable copy. Ref:082323. First Edition. Cloth. G/G. 14cmx22.5cm. Ex-Library.
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Details
- Seller
- Church Street Books
(GB)
- Seller Inventory #
- 002323
- Title
- The Best Short Stories of Rider Haggard
- Author
- H Rider Haggard (edited By Peter Haining)
- Format/binding
- Hardcover
- Book condition
- Used - G
- Jacket condition
- G
- Edition
- First Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0718120108
- ISBN 13
- 9780718120108
- Publisher
- Michael Joseph
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date published
- 1981
Terms of Sale
Church Street Books
payment with order. Refund if description inaccurate
About the Seller
Church Street Books
Biblio.com member since: 2007
Lutterworth, Leicestershire
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About Church Street Books
Second-hand book dealer (formerly in a Diss Shop), with a stock of around 2000 books from modern quality literature to reference, aviation, classics and antiquarian
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