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Paper Lives
by Mackenzie, Compton
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very good /Very good +
- Seller
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edinburgh, Midlothian, United Kingdom
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About This Item
London: Chatto & Windus, 1966. First edition. Hardcover. Very good /Very good +. 8vo, purple cloth boards with gilt titles on spine. Pictorial dust jacket designed by Clarke Hutton in excellent condition with minor shelf wear to the top. A couple of marks on the boards and a small mark on the title paper. Minor light spotting top edge, otherwise in near fine condition inside. 220pp. A light hearted satire on the follies of bureaucracy. Suitable as a gift copy.
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- Bookseller
- Bird's Books
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 2043
- Title
- Paper Lives
- Author
- Mackenzie, Compton
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very good
- Jacket Condition
- Very good +
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First edition
- Publisher
- Chatto & Windus
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1966
- Keywords
- civil service, 60s novel, satire
- Bookseller catalogs
- Fiction;
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- First Edition
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- Gilt
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- Shelf Wear
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- Jacket
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- Cloth
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- Fine
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- Spine
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