Calcutta Is
by Samaddar, Sivaprasad
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good in Good dust jacket
- Seller
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Dunedin, New Zealand, New Zealand
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About This Item
Calcutta: Corporation of Calcutta. Very Good in Good dust jacket. (1978). First Edition. Hardcover. No signatures. Some tears and chips to margins of dust wrapper. Dust wrapper protected in archival mylar cover. ; xxii, 324 pages + plates. Black cloth board with small gilt illustration on front board. Page dimensions: 217 x 138mm. "This book is an extremely readable account of Calcutta's multifaceted problems, which have all along baffled solution [. . .] The din of the markets and the cry of the hawker ring aloud in the following pages; roads, water supply, sewers and drains attract the city administrator's notice. He does not hid the filth and garbage of the city. Buildings and museums do not escape his searching eyes." - from dust wrapper blurb. ; 8vo .
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Details
- Bookseller
- Renaissance Books (NZ)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 11260
- Title
- Calcutta Is
- Author
- Samaddar, Sivaprasad
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good in Good dust jacket
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Corporation of Calcutta
- Place of Publication
- Calcutta
- Date Published
- (1978)
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Renaissance Books
Biblio member since 2005
Dunedin, New Zealand
About Renaissance Books
We are located in Dunedin, in the South Island of New Zealand. We have in stock over 8,500 books. We are a general antiquarian and out-of-print home-based bookseller, with some specialty areas in English literature, Maori, Travel, Tibet, and New Zealand history.
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- First Edition
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- Gilt
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- Cloth
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- Jacket
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- Blurb
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