A Race for Life
by WHISHAW, Fred
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good/No Jacket
- Seller
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Auckland, New Zealand
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About This Item
London: Henry Frowde/Hodder and Stoughton. No Date (ca 1920) . Decorative Cloth. Very Good/No Jacket. Colour frontispiece and title page + 7 full page b/w pictures. Hardback: red blind decorated cloth with colour picture pasted on front (detail of frontispiece), gilt spine title panel, spine is faded, very light foredge and some internal foxing, presentation plate on reverse of frontispiece, else vg. 8vo, 287pp. The adventures of a group of young men residing or holidaying in the north of Russia.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Mad Hatter Books (NZ)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 13K44
- Title
- A Race for Life
- Author
- WHISHAW, Fred
- Format/Binding
- Decorative Cloth
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- No Date (ca 1920)
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Henry Frowde/Hodder and Stoughton
- Place of Publication
- London
- Keywords
- Children's & Young Adult
- Bookseller catalogs
- Children's - Decorative Binding;
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Mad Hatter Books
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Auckland
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