The Dictionary of Imaginary Places
by Manguel, Alberto, and Gianni Guadalupi
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- Hardcover
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About This Item
New York: MacMillan Publishing Co. Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust jacket. 1980. First Edition; Stated First Printing. Hardcover. Hardcover in dust jacket. Green cloth spine on green boards, sharp and clean, mild shelf wear to edges. Protected, price unclipped, dustjacket is bright, cover picture is a detail from the painting St. Jerome in a Rocky Landscape by Patenierminimal, minimal shelf wear to corners Book firm in binding, crisp interior. An illustrated guide to places that exist in literature and the imagination--Ox, Shangri-La, Middle Earth, King Solomon's Mines. 438 pp. Including drawings, maps, and index. Maps by James Cook. Free of any markings, not ex-library.; 4to 11" - 13" tall .
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 3347
- Title
- The Dictionary of Imaginary Places
- Author
- Manguel, Alberto, and Gianni Guadalupi
- Illustrator
- Graham Greenfield
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust jacket
- Edition
- First Edition; Stated First Printing
- Publisher
- MacMillan Publishing Co
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1980
- Keywords
- Imaginary Places. Shangri-la. Oz. Dracula's Castle. Middle Earth., Graham Greenfield, James Cook map illustrator,
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