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Venice: Pure City
by Ackroyd, Peter
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fine Hardcover in a Near Fine Dust Jacket.
- ISBN 10
- 0385531524
- ISBN 13
- 9780385531528
- Seller
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DeLand, Florida, United States
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About This Item
New York: Nan A. Talese, 2010. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover with Dust Jacket. Fine Hardcover in a Near Fine Dust Jacket..
No Flaws or Blemishes but minimal shelf handling; Still Gift Quality. Appears unread. 10 inches tall; 403 pages with Bibliography and Index. First Edition, First Printing.
The wrap-around Dust Jacket has a scuff on the lower spine from a store sticker removal.
. "Thoughtful, thorough and insightful, [Ackroyd] is at least as much interpreter as historian. He brings this iconic city to vivid life ... While Venice is by no means an orthodox traveler's guide, it's a wonderful introduction to a city that has cast a particular spell since the fifth century ... A portrait so vivid it's aromatic ... Intoxicating."
-Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
No Flaws or Blemishes but minimal shelf handling; Still Gift Quality. Appears unread. 10 inches tall; 403 pages with Bibliography and Index. First Edition, First Printing.
The wrap-around Dust Jacket has a scuff on the lower spine from a store sticker removal.
. "Thoughtful, thorough and insightful, [Ackroyd] is at least as much interpreter as historian. He brings this iconic city to vivid life ... While Venice is by no means an orthodox traveler's guide, it's a wonderful introduction to a city that has cast a particular spell since the fifth century ... A portrait so vivid it's aromatic ... Intoxicating."
-Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
Synopsis
PETER ACKROYD is an award-winning novelist, as well as a broadcaster, biographer, poet and historian. He is the author of the acclaimed non-fiction bestsellers, Thames: Sacred River and London: The Biography . He holds a CBE for services to literature.
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- Bookseller
- Blind Horse Books [ABAA - FABA]
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 16448
- Title
- Venice: Pure City
- Author
- Ackroyd, Peter
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover with Dust Jacket
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine Hardcover in a Near Fine Dust Jacket.
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition, First Printing
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0385531524
- ISBN 13
- 9780385531528
- Publisher
- Nan A. Talese
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 2010
- Keywords
- Italy
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