Noble Essences or Courteous Revelations: Being a Book of Characters and the Fifth and Last Volume of Left Hand, Right Hand! An Autobiography
by Sitwell, Osbert
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good /Good -
- Seller
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Hay-on-Wye, Powys, United Kingdom
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About This Item
London, UK: Macmillan & Co. Ltd.. Red cloth, gilt title on small black panel. 335pp. b/w plates. Spine and corners very slightly bumped. Some shelf wear to dust jacket with spine, edges and rear panel a little discoloured and tears to spine and corners. Top edge is coloured and contents clean. . Very Good. Hardcover. 1950.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Broad Street Book Centre
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 110017
- Title
- Noble Essences or Courteous Revelations: Being a Book of Characters and the Fifth and Last Volume of Left Hand, Right Hand! An Autobiography
- Author
- Sitwell, Osbert
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Good -
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Macmillan & Co. Ltd.
- Place of Publication
- London, UK
- Date Published
- 1950
- Pages
- 335
- Size
- 220mm x 150mm.
- Keywords
- literature culture autobiography Sitwell unit fourteen
Terms of Sale
Broad Street Book Centre
We accept returns within 7 days of receipt should the item not prove to be as described
About the Seller
Broad Street Book Centre
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Hay-on-Wye, Powys
About Broad Street Book Centre
Our bookshop is situated in the world famous book-town of Hay-on-Wye and hosts 20 individual booksellers covering the broadest possible range of books with everything from antiquarian to zoology
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