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THE DIPLOMATS The Foreign Office Today
by GEOFFREY MOORHOUSE , Former Chief Features Writer for The Guardian
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0224013238
- ISBN 13
- 9780224013239
- Seller
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Brighton, East Sussex, United Kingdom
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About This Item
LONDON: JONATHAN CAPE, 1977 Navy Blue cloth boards with gilt titles to spine, 220 x 150 mm approx. xii + 406 pp. 6 Tables and 4 Figs in text. First Edition 1977. The copy offered by us is from the library of Sir John Barnes late British Ambassador to the Netherlands and previously Israel with his family book plate to the front paste down. Please see our images of the actual book offered for sale for further details and condition. VG/VG (Book- a little dust spotting to top edge and mild foxing to fore edge of book block. No notable shelf wear. Book plate as above. No notable defects. Dust jacket- negligible shelf rubbing, non price clipped, supplied in a removable proprietary protective sleeve).
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- Bookseller
- booksonlinebrighton
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 125735
- Title
- THE DIPLOMATS The Foreign Office Today
- Author
- GEOFFREY MOORHOUSE , Former Chief Features Writer for The Guardian
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0224013238
- ISBN 13
- 9780224013239
- Publisher
- JONATHAN CAPE
- Place of Publication
- LONDON
- Date Published
- 1977
- Keywords
- The Diplomats, Geoffrey Moorhouse, Former Chief Features Writer for The Guardian , The Foreign Office, Diplomacy, Politics, British Colonial History, The Civil Service, The Foreign and Commonwealth Office, Sir John Barnes British Ambassador,
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