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The Norton Book of London
by Wilson, A. N. (Editor)
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/No Jacket
- ISBN 10
- 0393036316
- ISBN 13
- 9780393036312
- Seller
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About This Item
New York and London: W.W.Norton & Company, 1995. First US Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7?" - 9?" tall. Type: Hardback First American Edition, 1955, in Very Good Condition. No Jacket. Binding of copper full cloth with black title panels on spine, gilt titles within, very clean and unmarked, no wear to extremities; binding tight and solid, inner hinge partially cracked. Internals in Fine Condition. Chapters on: The Waterloo Steps;, Monuments; The Place: Districts, Places, Street Names; London Molehills; London Animals; Royal London; Characters; Mobs, Riots and Affrays; Clubs, Taverns and Coffee Houses; Mrs. Roebuck; and more. With contributions by Dickens, Shakespeare, William Blake, Boswell, Keats, Lawrence, Dostoyevsky, Lenin, Waugh, Eliot, Kipling, Martin Amis and others. 8vo. 480 pp. Bibliography and Index. 1995, W.W.Norton & Company, W.W.Norton & Company.
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- The Parnassus BookShop
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 027728
- Title
- The Norton Book of London
- Author
- Wilson, A. N. (Editor)
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First US Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0393036316
- ISBN 13
- 9780393036312
- Publisher
- W.W.Norton & Company
- Place of Publication
- New York and London
- Date Published
- 1995
- Size
- 8vo - over 7?" - 9?" t
- Keywords
- ENGLAND; WATERLOO STEPS; JOHN BETJEMAN MONUMENTS; ROYAL LONDON CLUBS; TAVERN HOUSES AND HAUNTS;
- Bookseller catalogs
- History. Great Britain;
- X weight
- 0 oz
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- Tight
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- Fine
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- Gilt
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