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NEWS OF PERSEPHONE Impressions in Northern and Southern Greece with a Car, a Kettle and Cameras
by DOROTHY UNA RATLIFFE
- Used
- Good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good/No Jacket
- Seller
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Brighton, East Sussex, United Kingdom
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About This Item
LONDON: EYRE & SPOTTISWOODE, 1939 Pale blue cloth boards with gilt blocked titles to spine and upper board, 225 x 150 mm approx. Maps to end papers, x + 224 pp. Frontis + 45 other monochrome photo illustrations as called for. First Edition 1939. Please see our images of the actual book offered for sale for further details and condition. Good no d/j (Book- heavy shelf rubbing to cloth- colour loss only, bump to head of spine and corners rounded. Mild general shelf soiling. Ink stamp of previous ownership - institution to top margin of free front end paper. No other notable defects). A sound reading copy of a pre WWII travel book.
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- Bookseller
- booksonlinebrighton
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 131474
- Title
- NEWS OF PERSEPHONE Impressions in Northern and Southern Greece with a Car, a Kettle and Cameras
- Author
- DOROTHY UNA RATLIFFE
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Publisher
- EYRE & SPOTTISWOODE
- Place of Publication
- LONDON
- Date Published
- 1939
- Keywords
- News of Persephone, Dorothy Una Ratcliffe, Greece, Gypsies, Attica, Argolis, Arcadia, Laconia, Elis, Phocis, Thessaly Macedonia, Tempe, Travel Books,
Terms of Sale
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