Venice desired / Tony Tanner
by Tony Tanner
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- See description
- ISBN 10
- 0631155538
- ISBN 13
- 9780631155539
- Seller
-
Galway, Ireland
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About This Item
Oxford, Blackwell, 1992. First Edition. Hardcover. Provenance; bookplate of John Francis Ashby. Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dust-wrapper. Particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Physical description; xvi, 384 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm. Notes; Includes bibliographical references (pages 369-379) and index. Contents; Lord Byron: a sea cybele. John Ruskin: this sea-dog of towns. Henry James: perpetual architecture, perpetual fluidity, Hugo von Hofmannsthal: because the people there were always masked. Marcel Proust: threefold and unique. Ezra Pound: the white forest of marble. Subject; Literature, Modern 19th century History and criticism. Travel in literature. Venice In literature.
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- Bookseller
- MW Books Ltd. (IE)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 378550
- Title
- Venice desired / Tony Tanner
- Author
- Tony Tanner
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0631155538
- ISBN 13
- 9780631155539
- Publisher
- Oxford, Blackwell
- Date Published
- 1992
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