The Act of Creation
by Koestler, Arthur
- Used
- good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good/Fair
- Seller
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Granville, New York, United States
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About This Item
NY: Macmillian, 1964. Hard cover. Published NY: Macmillian, 1964, third printing. 8vo., 751pp., illustrated with drawings. Black cloth with gilt spine titles, black end papers. Foxing to edges of page block, pages clean and bright, binding tight. Good in fair dust jacket split at the folds. . Hard. Good/Fair. 8vo.
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- Bookseller
- The Wild Muse (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 010061
- Title
- The Act of Creation
- Author
- Koestler, Arthur
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- Fair
- Publisher
- Macmillian
- Place of Publication
- NY
- Date Published
- 1964
- Size
- 8vo
- Bookseller catalogs
- Psychology;
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Returnable within 10 days.
About the Seller
The Wild Muse
Biblio member since 2005
Granville, New York
About The Wild Muse
Literary and modern first editions. Established 1985. Mail order only.
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- Cloth
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- Gilt
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