Looking Back: An Autobiographical Excursion
by DOUGLAS, NORMAN
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- Hardcover
- first
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About This Item
Chatto & Windus 1934. FIRST EDITIN THUS, super octavo, maroon buckram boards, cream lettering to spine, top page edges stained maroon, deckled lower page edges, vi + 527pp, illus/photos, VG (sl bruising & moderate fading to spine & board edges, light to moderate discolouration to boards, light to moderate tanning & foxing to page edges & eps, prev. owner's name in ink to half title page, varying degrees of foxing sporadically throughout) in d/w, VG- (price clipped, moderate creasing & chipping to edges, moderate to heavy tanning & soiling)
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- Title
- Looking Back: An Autobiographical Excursion
- Author
- DOUGLAS, NORMAN
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Chatto & Windus 1934
- Keywords
- firts editions THUS Norman Douglas autobiography memoir
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- Buckram
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