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London at War, 1939-1945
by Philip Ziegler
- Used
- good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good/Good
- ISBN 10
- 1856193845
- ISBN 13
- 9781856193849
- Seller
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Haywards Heath, West Sussex, United Kingdom
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About This Item
London: Book Club Associates/Sinclair-Stevenson Ltd, 1995 Book Club Associates/Sinclair-Stevenson, London, 1995, he with d/w, book club edition, black cloth boards with gilt titles to spine, few signs of wear to the covers, pages lightly tanned with age, some feint spotting to the top edges of the pages, a good tight binding, in a dust wrapper that has not been price clipped and has few signs of wear with only light wear to the edges [B3566][Box 27]
Synopsis
Philip Ziegler was in the British Diplomatic Service before joining the publishers William Collins, where he was editorial director for over fifteen years. He is the biographer of, among others, Diana Cooper, Mountbatten, Harold Wilson and King Edward VIII, and an historian of the Black Death. Most recently he has written Soldiers: Chelsea Pensioners . He lives in London.
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- Seller
- Ramblingsid's Books
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- Seller's Inventory #
- 003822
- Title
- London at War, 1939-1945
- Author
- Philip Ziegler
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Book Club Edition
- ISBN 10
- 1856193845
- ISBN 13
- 9781856193849
- Publisher
- Book Club Associates/Sinclair-Stevenson Ltd
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1995
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- Book Club Edition
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- Spine
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- Cloth
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- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
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