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A Very Private Eye: An Autobiography in Diaries and Letters
by Pym, Barbara
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- See description
- ISBN 10
- 0525242341
- ISBN 13
- 9780525242345
- Seller
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Skipton, North Yorkshire, United Kingdom
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About This Item
E. P. Dutton. Hardback. 358pp. A selection of black and white plates. Autobiography of the novelist formed by her dairies and letter. Edited by Hazel Holt and Hilary Pym (Barbara's sister). First edition. smartly bound with white cloth to the spine and orange papers to the boards. Pages are tanned. dust jacket is slightly sunned to the spine and the edges. Faint spotting to the closed page edges else clean and sound. Good+, sound copy in like dust jacket . Hardback. First Edition. 1984.
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Details
- Bookseller
- C L Hawley
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 24167
- Title
- A Very Private Eye: An Autobiography in Diaries and Letters
- Author
- Pym, Barbara
- Format/Binding
- Hardback
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0525242341
- ISBN 13
- 9780525242345
- Publisher
- E. P. Dutton
- Date Published
- 1984
- Keywords
- Barbara Pym,Hilary Pym,Hazel Holt,Twentieth century novel,Women , writers,Literary biography,Autobiography,Letters,Diaries
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About the Seller
C L Hawley
Biblio member since 2005
Skipton, North Yorkshire
About C L Hawley
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- Sunned
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- Jacket
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