The Past is a Foreign Country scenes from a life
by Collier, Richard
- Used
- Fine
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Fine/very good
- ISBN 10
- 0850319595
- ISBN 13
- 9780850319590
- Seller
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Lancaster, Lancashire, United Kingdom
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
London: Allison & Busby, 1996. Hardcover. Fine/very good. Fine/very good jacket. Autobiography covering the author's remarkable life as a Fleet Street journalist, both pre- and post-war. Chock full of wonderful characters and hilarious anecdotes. Contains 280 pages, 24 x 16cm. Brown cloth boards in pictorial dust jacket showing a repaired 6cm tear and some light shelf-wear, otherwise very good. Internally, Fine: clean, bright and unmarked in excellent bindings. Looks, feels and smells like new.
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- Bookseller
- William Robertson (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 01423
- Title
- The Past is a Foreign Country scenes from a life
- Author
- Collier, Richard
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- very good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- ISBN 10
- 0850319595
- ISBN 13
- 9780850319590
- Publisher
- Allison & Busby
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1996
- Keywords
- BIOGRAPHY COLLIER JOURNALISM NEWSPAPERS WWII SINGAPORE FAR EAST HUMOUR
- Bookseller catalogs
- BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / General;
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Lancaster, Lancashire
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