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THE LONDON OF SHERLOCK HOLMES
by Michael Harrison
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Ours is an ex-library copy in transparent protective covering, with usual stamps, stickers, barcode cut from endpaper, etc. GOOD
- Seller
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McCrae, Victoria, Australia
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About This Item
David & Charles, Newton Abbot, Devon - 1972 hardcover, 6¼" x 8½", with dust jacket Ours is an ex-library copy in transparent protective covering, with usual stamps, stickers, barcode cut from endpaper, etc. GOOD book in GOOD unclipped dust jacket Sherlock Holmes first came to live in London in 1877 - the date is arguable - and in this book Michael Harrison, London's historian extraordinary, delightfully compares the city that Holmes and Watson knew with the London of today. Illustrated with 100 photographs and drawings
making this an instructive guide to London with a 'nostalgic evocation' of Holmes's London of gaslight, hansom cabs and 'gasogenes'.
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Details
- Seller
- Pegasus Book Orphanage
(AU)
- Seller's Inventory #
- 41390
- Title
- THE LONDON OF SHERLOCK HOLMES
- Author
- Michael Harrison
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover, 6¼" x 8½", with dust jacket
- Book Condition
- Used - Ours is an ex-library copy in transparent protective covering, with usual stamps, stickers, barcode cut from endpaper, etc. GOOD
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- David & Charles, Newton Abbot, Devon -
- Date Published
- 1972
- Pages
- 232 pages
- Keywords
- Sherlock Holmes Dr Watson Londin History 1877s illustrated
Terms of Sale
Pegasus Book Orphanage
30 day return guarantee, with full refund including original shipping costs for up to 30 days after delivery if an item arrives misdescribed or damaged.
About the Seller
Pegasus Book Orphanage
Biblio member since 2016
McCrae, Victoria
About Pegasus Book Orphanage
On-line bookstore operating for 20+ years.
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