THE PRINCIPLES AND PRACTICE OF THE SYSTEM OF CONTROL OVER PARLIAMENTARY GRANTS
by Colonel A J V Durell:
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- Hardcover
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theberton suffolk, United Kingdom
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About This Item
Gieves Publishing Co Portsmouth 1917. Vg (no dj, a very good very tight clean crisp copy, bound in sturdy glossy dark blue cloth boards with no publisher's marks (? rebound), brown leather title plate with gilt titles pasted on spine (?from original binding), internally contents extremely clean tight crisp and bright, with few scattered spots outside edges only not encroaching upon margins, faint scattered spotting endpapers) substantial octavo 519pp. With foreword by Sir Charles Harris.
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- Bookseller
- lobstabooks (GB)
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- 55983
- Title
- THE PRINCIPLES AND PRACTICE OF THE SYSTEM OF CONTROL OVER PARLIAMENTARY GRANTS
- Author
- Colonel A J V Durell:
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Gieves Publishing Co Portsmouth 1917
- Bookseller catalogs
- politics;
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