Twenty Thousands Streets Under the Sky - a London Trilogy
by Patrick Hamilton
- Used
- acceptable
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Acceptable/N/a
- Seller
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Lutterworth, Leicestershire
Item Price:
$49.96
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About This Item
Ondon: Constable, 1947. "The Midnight Bell", "The Siege of Pleasure" and "The Plains of Cement", introduction by J. B.Priestley. Red covers, 511pp, black top edges. Spine is missing, but has a neat amateur replacement in green. Joints badly cracked, but holding with the help of tape. Text bloc is solid with heavily foxed edges and prelims. But a decent reading copy. No DJ. Ref:104079. Reprint. Cloth. Acceptable/N/a. 12x19cm.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Church Street Books
(GB)
- Bookseller Inventory #
- 004079
- Title
- Twenty Thousands Streets Under the Sky - a London Trilogy
- Author
- Patrick Hamilton
- Format/binding
- Hardcover
- Book condition
- Used - Acceptable
- Jacket condition
- N/a
- Edition
- Reprint
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Constable
- Place of Publication
- Ondon
- Date published
- 1947
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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