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Small Books and Pleasant Histories: Popular fiction and its readership in seventeenth-century England
by Spufford, Margaret
- Used
- Good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good/Good
- ISBN 10
- 0416741509
- ISBN 13
- 9780416741506
- Seller
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Sandy, Bedfordshire, United Kingdom
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About This Item
London: Methuen & Co Ltd, 1981. 1st edition. Hardback. Black cloth with gold lettering to spine. Octavo. [xxi prelims] 275 pages. 4 pages of b&w plates; several b&w line illustrations within the text. Good in Good jacket. Page edges tanned. Jacket has some wear and creasing to its edges, particularly around the spine ends, in the top corners and along the top edges of the flaps. Spine slightly faded; both faces a bit rubbed.
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- Bookseller
- Alex Richardson
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 2269
- Title
- Small Books and Pleasant Histories: Popular fiction and its readership in seventeenth-century England
- Author
- Spufford, Margaret
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0416741509
- ISBN 13
- 9780416741506
- Publisher
- Methuen & Co Ltd
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1981
- Size
- Octavo
- Keywords
- Books, Book, History, Social, England, Seventeenth, 17th, Century, Stuart, Reading, Literature, Street, Folk, Trade, Bookselling, Publishing, Chapbook, Chapbooks
- Bookseller catalogs
- History; Literary Criticism;
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About the Seller
Alex Richardson
Biblio member since 2021
Sandy, Bedfordshire
About Alex Richardson
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