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HOW TO BE DECADENT (SIGNED COPY)
by GEORGE MIKES
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0233969322
- ISBN 13
- 9780233969329
- Seller
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Brighton, East Sussex, United Kingdom
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About This Item
LONDON : ANDRE DEUTSCH, 1977 Cerise Boards with silver blocked titles to spine, 190 x 125 mm approx. 88 pp + Publisher's list.Frontis + vignette and full page other line illustrations by Nicolas Bentley. First Edition 1977, warmly inscribed and signed by the author to title page. Please see our images of the actual book offered for sale for further details and condition. Very Good/ Very Good (Book- Mild general shelf wear to boards, author insc. as above. Dust Jacket - sunned around spine and small chips to laminate, price clipped.No other notable defects to book or jacket).
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- Bookseller
- booksonlinebrighton
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 133168
- Title
- HOW TO BE DECADENT (SIGNED COPY)
- Author
- GEORGE MIKES
- Illustrator
- NICOLAS BENTLEY
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0233969322
- ISBN 13
- 9780233969329
- Publisher
- ANDRE DEUTSCH
- Place of Publication
- LONDON
- Date Published
- 1977
- Keywords
- How to be decadent, George Mikes, Nicolas Bentley Illustrated, Signed Books, Humour,
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- Inscribed
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- Sunned
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- Spine
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- Shelf Wear
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- Title Page
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- First Edition
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