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London was Yesterday, 1934 - 1939
by Janet Flanner
- Used
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Good+/Good+
- Seller
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Lanvellec, France
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About This Item
New York: Viking Press, 1975. First Edition. Signed by author in green ink on title page.
Good/Good.
This selection of articles originally published in The New Yorker (1934 - 1939) is edited by Irving Drutman. It is a remarkably mordant overview of uppercrust pre-war London with very numerous black and white photographs.
1/4 black cloth over red paper-covered boards. Gilt titles to spine.
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- Bookseller
- LeCrastinBooks
(FR)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 000007
- Title
- London was Yesterday, 1934 - 1939
- Author
- Janet Flanner
- Format/Binding
- Stich binding undone on first signature (pages 3 - 30). This appears to be a generic binding fault which can easily be set right
- Book Condition
- Used - Good+
- Jacket Condition
- Good+
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Viking Press
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1975
- Pages
- 160
- Size
- Quarto 246x200mm
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- London, InterWar, Royalty, Class, Society
- Bookseller catalogs
- La Liseuse du Crastin;
Terms of Sale
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Full refund (not including postage) if book does not correspond to description and is returned within 7 days.
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