The English Past: Evocations of persons and places
by Rowse, A. L. [Alfred Leslie]
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good
- Seller
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Leeds, West Yorkshire, United Kingdom
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About This Item
Macmillan & Co. Ltd, 1951. Very Good. 8vo, 22cm, pp. ix, 245. Blue cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine. Head and tail sun-faded. Vertical toned band to half-title. Dust Jacket in Brodart - minor foxing and sunning, with a chip to the head, but still very good for age. A clean, tight copy. Rowse was an outspoken and popular expert on Elizabethan England, a poet and a biographer. Here, he sought to see important literary figures 'through the places where they lived or which their lives touched, and the places through them and their eyes'. (Preface).
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- Bookseller
- Quair Books (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 563
- Title
- The English Past: Evocations of persons and places
- Author
- Rowse, A. L. [Alfred Leslie]
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Macmillan & Co. Ltd
- Date Published
- 1951
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