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The Hothouse Society: An exploration of boarding-school life through the boys' and girls' own writings
by Lambert, Royston with Millham, Spencer
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/good
- ISBN 10
- 0297764349
- ISBN 13
- 9780297764342
- Seller
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Montmorillon, France
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About This Item
London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1968. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/good. First impression. 8vo. Pp x + 400. Black cloth boards stamped in gilt on the spine. Name of ownership on the front free endpaper else a clean, unmarked copy in a tight binding and unclipped dust jacket. The protected dust jacket shows a large (25mm) triangular chip at the foot of the upper panel and another at the foot of the lower panel. There are also a number of closed tears
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- Bookseller
- The Glass Key
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 94746
- Title
- The Hothouse Society: An exploration of boarding-school life through the boys' and girls' own writings
- Author
- Lambert, Royston with Millham, Spencer
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0297764349
- ISBN 13
- 9780297764342
- Publisher
- Weidenfeld and Nicolson
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1968
- Bookseller catalogs
- Social Science;
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