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Heroes: Saviours, Traitors and Supermen
by Hughes-Hallett, Lucy
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 1857026802
- ISBN 13
- 9781857026801
- Seller
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Toms River, New Jersey, United States
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About This Item
London, UK: Fourth Estate, 2004. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 1st Printing Printed & bound in Great Britain. First Edition per complete number line. Hardcover in very good condition. Black boards with gold colored spine lettering. Rust red endpapers. Text block clean & tight, no writing, no markings noted. Contains four sections (eight pages each) of glossy black & white, sepia, and colored photographs. Dust jacket very good with only lightest shelf & edge wear. Not price clipped. Concludes with an extensive index. 604 numbered pages. * From the front flap, ""Beginning beneath the wall of Troy, ending in 1930s Europe when the cult of the hero was turning politically lethal, this is a book about mortality and dictatorship, about money and sorcery, about seduction and mass-hysteria. . . .""
Synopsis
Lucy Hughes-Hallett is a critic for The Sunday Times (London) and the author of Cleopatra: Histories, Dreams and Distortions . She lives in London with her husband and daughter, and is at work on a book about Gabriele d'Annunzio and the origins of Italian fascism.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Elk Creek Heritage Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- M000745
- Title
- Heroes: Saviours, Traitors and Supermen
- Author
- Hughes-Hallett, Lucy
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- ISBN 10
- 1857026802
- ISBN 13
- 9781857026801
- Publisher
- Fourth Estate
- Place of Publication
- London, UK
- Date Published
- 2004
- Keywords
- Heroes, Heroes - Biography, Heroes - History
- Bookseller catalogs
- History;
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About the Seller
Elk Creek Heritage Books
Biblio member since 2015
Toms River, New Jersey
About Elk Creek Heritage Books
Elk Creek Heritage Books opened for business in 2002 with both online selling and an open shop. We continue now as an online-only bookshop and maintain a growing inventory with new additions regularly uploaded. Our largest subject areas include History, Religion, Biography, and Fiction, however, we also carry books on many other subjects, in addition to our collection of rare and antiquarian books. Our goal is to provide you, our customer, with a completely satisfactory experience.
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