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Hugh Casson's Cambridge
by Casson, Sir Hugh
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- F/F/F
- ISBN 10
- 0714824593
- ISBN 13
- 9780714824598
- Seller
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Salisbury, Wiltshire, United Kingdom
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About This Item
HARDBACK "UNCOMMON," SHIPPED FROM THE UK* Edition: 2nd. Reprint.* Impression: 1st.* Date: 1993 (1992).* Pub: Phaidon Books.* Binding and cover condition: Cream cloth covered boards with small, gilt title to spine strip and none to face. No bumps, rubs or other visible faults. FINE* Jacket condition: Colour illustrated wrapper showing Kings College. Not Price clipped but showing no shelf price.* Contents condition: PRIVATE COPY NOT EX-LIBRARY. Coloured end papers (beige). Clean, crisp, tight and bright with no reading wear, no marks to text, no tanning or other visible faults. Seems lightly used if at all. FINE.* Illustrations: Numerous colour and b/w illustrations throughout.* Pages: 94 pp. text. iii pp. bibliography, index & blank pages at rear.* Description: The most beautiful university in the world is how Sir Hugh Casson describes the magnificent variety of buildings of every period, style and material that are grouped together in Cambridge, at the convergence of "four roads and a sluggish river." This enchanting illustrated notebook is a celebration of that city, exploring not only the imposing and the impressive but also Cambridge's more intimate and unusual spaces, textures and silhouettes.* A FINE reprint copy with no visible faults in a FINE dust jacket.*
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- Bookseller
- Cocksparrow Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 9342
- Title
- Hugh Casson's Cambridge
- Author
- Casson, Sir Hugh
- Illustrator
- Casson, Sir H.
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - F/F/F
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Reprint 1993
- ISBN 10
- 0714824593
- ISBN 13
- 9780714824598
- Publisher
- Phaidon Press Ltd
- Place of Publication
- London UK. 97
- Date Published
- 1992-06-29
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