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Pemberton
by David Footman
- 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: The Cresset Press, 1943. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good/very good. Slim 8vo, red cloth boards with gilt titles on spine. Pictorial dust jacket with faded spine and some edgewear, not price clipped, generally very good. 188pp. 'The story of life in the capital of a Baltic state in the Spring of 1941. It gives an account of the small British colony ... during that last fortnight as the inevitable crisis came nearer and nearer and finally broke over them.'
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- Bookseller
- Bird's Books
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1016
- Title
- Pemberton
- Author
- David Footman
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- very good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First edition
- Publisher
- The Cresset Press
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1943
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- WW2, Balkan crisis, Balkan states, british expat
- Bookseller catalogs
- Fiction;
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- Gilt
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- Jacket
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