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Devil's Advocate
by Humphrys, John
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- F/VG+/VG
- ISBN 10
- 009180048X
- ISBN 13
- 9780091800482
- Seller
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Salisbury, Wiltshire, United Kingdom
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About This Item
HARDBACK SHIPPED FROM THE UK* Edition: 1st.* Impression: 1st. Full number line.* Date of Publication: 1999* Publisher: Hutchinson* Binding and cover condition: Maroon cloth, Gilt title to spine. Slight Bumps to corners and head/tail of spine. VG+* Jacket condition: Colour photo cover. Price clipped, some minor shelf wear to edges & tail of spine. VG* Contents condition: PRIVATE COPY NOT EX-LIBRARY, maroon endpapers, clean, crisp, tight and bright. No inscriptions or annotations. FINE* Illustrations: None* Pages: 271 pp. text. iv pp. acknowledgements & advertisements, no index at rear.* John Humphrys has been a journalist since he left school at the age of 15. He is now one of the most respected broadcasters of his generation and his interviews on Radio Four's Today programme are regarded by some as compulsive and compulsory listening. In his debut book, Devil's Advocate, he draws on 40 years of experience to look at the changes that have been happening in Britain and possible future scenarios. This book is very strongly argued and there is plenty to agree and disagree with. It achieves exactly what Humphrys is famous for -- stimulating debate. A Near FINE copy of the 1st./1st. fnl. in a clipped jacket with some slight shelf wear.
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- Bookseller
- Cocksparrow Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 915
- Title
- Devil's Advocate
- Author
- Humphrys, John
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - F/VG+/VG
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 009180048X
- ISBN 13
- 9780091800482
- Publisher
- Hutchinson
- Place of Publication
- London Uk 282
- This edition first published
- 1999
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- Number Line
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- Gilt
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- Tail
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- Shelf Wear
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- Bumps
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- Tight
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- Fine
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