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The Setting of the Pearl: Vienna under Hitler
by Weyr, Thomas
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0195146794
- ISBN 13
- 9780195146790
- Seller
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Toms River, New Jersey, United States
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About This Item
New York: Oxford University Press, 2005. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 1st Printing First Edition: Same date on Title & Copyright Page plus complete number line with the number one. Hard cover in very good condition with black boards and gold gilt spine lettering. Text block clean & tight; no writing, no markings; no remainder mark. 352 numbered pages. Contains eight leaves/16 pages of glossy black & white photos. Concludes with a section on Notes to the Chapters, a Bibliography, and an extensive Index. Dust jacket in very good condition; only ghost of shelf & edge wear; not price clipped. * From the front jacket flap, ""When Adolf Hitler seized Vienna in the Anschluss of 1938 he called the city "" a pearl to which he would give a proper setting."" But the setting he left behind seven years later was one of ruin and destruction - the pearl had become a physical, spiritual, and intellectual wasteland.""
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- Bookseller
- Elk Creek Heritage Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- M000250
- Title
- The Setting of the Pearl: Vienna under Hitler
- Author
- Weyr, Thomas
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0195146794
- ISBN 13
- 9780195146790
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 2005
- Keywords
- Vienna (Austria) - History, World War II - Austria - Vienna, National socialism - Austria Vienna
- Bookseller catalogs
- History of World War II;
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Elk Creek Heritage Books
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Toms River, New Jersey
About Elk Creek Heritage Books
Elk Creek Heritage Books opened for business in 2002 with both online selling and an open shop. We continue now as an online-only bookshop and maintain a growing inventory with new additions regularly uploaded. Our largest subject areas include History, Religion, Biography, and Fiction, however, we also carry books on many other subjects, in addition to our collection of rare and antiquarian books. Our goal is to provide you, our customer, with a completely satisfactory experience.
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