Venice - Pure City
by Peter Ackroyd
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0701172851
- ISBN 13
- 9780701172855
- Seller
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Pateley Bridge, North Yorkshire, United Kingdom
Item Price
€11.99€9.59
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About This Item
London: Chatto & Windus Ltd, 2009 Book. Very Good. Grey Cloth Boards. First Edition, First Printing. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Historical guide to the city of Venice, its language, architecture and culture. 403pp with index, illustrated with 32 pages of photographs in colour and black and white and a map. Illustrated endpapers, gilt lettering to spine. Minor forward lean and creasing to spine, otherwise very good plus copy with no inscriptions. Unclipped DJ has minimal edge and surface wear, otherwise very good. Loosely enclosed, related post card..
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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Details
- Bookseller
- Washburn Books (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 015825
- Title
- Venice - Pure City
- Author
- Peter Ackroyd
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Edition
- First Edition, First Printing
- ISBN 10
- 0701172851
- ISBN 13
- 9780701172855
- Publisher
- Chatto & Windus Ltd
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 2009
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾
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Washburn Books
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