The Achievement of Michael Oakeshott
by Norman, Jesse ( editor)
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good Plus/Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0715624512
- ISBN 13
- 9780715624517
- Seller
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Sorn, East Ayrshire, United Kingdom
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About This Item
London: Duckworth & Co, 1993. 1st Edition. Green Cloth. Very Good Plus/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Illustrated. 148pp. A lovely copy of this first edition ( 1993) with wrapper. B/w photographic plates of Michael Oakeshott as frontispiece plate. Gilt embossed lettering to the spine. Slight bump to the head and tail of the spine. There is a slight soil mark to the margin of the title page with a sligth corresponding mark to the margin of the frontispiece plate - not affecting the illustration in anyway. Fresh and clean. Dust wrapper not price clipped. Some light creasing to the tail of the front panel of the wrapper. Clean and tight. A very good copy indeed.
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- Bookseller
- Trumpington Fine Books Limited
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 224726
- Title
- The Achievement of Michael Oakeshott
- Author
- Norman, Jesse ( editor)
- Illustrator
- Illustrated
- Format/Binding
- Green Cloth
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good Plus
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0715624512
- ISBN 13
- 9780715624517
- Publisher
- Duckworth & Co
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1993
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾"
- X weight
- 0 oz
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