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The House of Twenty Thousand Books.
by Sasha Abramsky
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- Hardcover
- first
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Dorchester, Dorset, United Kingdom
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About This Item
New York Review Books 2015 1st US edition. Size 23.5cm x 16.cm In red cloth covers with gilt to spine. With illustrated dustwrapper. Black endpapers. In near fine condition with near fine dustwrapper. (d/w Not price clipped.). A very clean and tight copy. 345pp. 'The story of Chimen Abramsky, an extraordinary polymath and bibliophile who amassed a vast collection of socialist literature and Jewish history'
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- The Antique Map & Bookshop
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 88887
- Title
- The House of Twenty Thousand Books.
- Author
- Sasha Abramsky
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- New York Review Books 2015 1st US edition
- Keywords
- Literature Sasha Abramsky first edition, teaching poetry, diaries, essays, letters, dustwrapper, The House of Twenty Thousand Books New York Review Books
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About the Seller
The Antique Map & Bookshop
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Dorchester, Dorset
About The Antique Map & Bookshop
The Antique Map & Bookshop was established in 1976 and has been in Puddletown since 1978. PUDDLETOWN is situated just outside DORCHESTER in the county of DORSET, on the A35 to BOURNEMOUTH. The village has a by-pass now which means there is easy access to the village and ample space for parking. Our shop is directly on the main road through the village.
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- Gilt
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- Tight
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- Dustwrapper
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- Cloth
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- Spine
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- Price Clipped
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- Fine
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