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Losing Nelson
by Unsworth, Barry
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- GD+/GD+/GD+
- ISBN 10
- 0241137004
- ISBN 13
- 9780241137000
- Seller
-
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: Hamish hamilton.* Binding and cover condition: Green cloth, no title to spine or face. Askews Library edition. Light bumps to lower corners, no rubs, top edge aged. GD+* Jacket condition: Colour illustrated dust wrapper in clear film jacket. NOT PRICE CLIPPED showing shelf price of £15.99. Some shelf wear to top & bottom edges and to head & tail of spine. GD+* Contents condition: Ex library copy with usual stamps and labels. Clean, crisp and tight with some light tanning to all edges, no marks to text. GD+* Illustrations: None.* Pages: 313 pp. text.* Description: Admiral Horatio Nelson has remained one of the enduring heroes of English nationalism. However, Barry Unsworth's devastating novel Losing Nelson takes the interrogation of the Admiral to new depths, in this dark, gripping study of the dark side of heroism and hero worship.* A GOOD + library copy with a good dust jacket.*
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- Seller
- Cocksparrow Books
(GB)
- Seller's Inventory #
- 2014
- Title
- Losing Nelson
- Author
- Unsworth, Barry
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - GD+/GD+/GD+
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0241137004
- ISBN 13
- 9780241137000
- Publisher
- Hamish Hamilton Ltd.,
- Place of Publication
- London Uk 313
- This edition first published
- 1999
- Size
- 23 x 15.6 x 3.4 cm
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Cocksparrow Books
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Salisbury, Wiltshire
About Cocksparrow Books
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