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The City in Slang
by Allen, Irving Lewis
- Used
- Fine
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Fine/near fine
- ISBN 10
- 0195075919
- ISBN 13
- 9780195075915
- Seller
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Newark, New Jersey, United States
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About This Item
New York: Oxford University Press, 1993. First edition. Hardcover. Fine/near fine. 8vo. x, [6], 308 pp. Bound in full black cloth, title stamped in metallic red on spine, in white dust jacket printed in red and black. Black and white illustrations. Includes bibliography and indexes. Inscribed by Author on half title: "For Lynn Z Bloom,/who might have been/a spieler./warm regards,/Irving Lewis Allen." Fine, 2" x 3" silver sticker of University of Connecticut to half title, bright, clean copy, in Near Fine dust jacket with minor shelf wear.
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- Bookseller
- Garnet Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 003110
- Title
- The City in Slang
- Author
- Allen, Irving Lewis
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- near fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First edition
- ISBN 10
- 0195075919
- ISBN 13
- 9780195075915
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1993
- Bookseller catalogs
- Signed / Inscribed;
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