Sotheby's: Bidding for Class
by Lacey, Robert
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0316511390
- ISBN 13
- 9780316511391
- Seller
-
Santa Barbara, California, United States
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About This Item
Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1998. viii, 354 pages, illustrations; 24 cm. Tight, clean copy. Last index page creased. Stated First Edition. Remainder mark/tail edge. Fine DJ. "Robert Lacey is a British historian noted for his original research, which gets him close to - and often living alongside - his subjects. He is the author of numerous international bestsellers.Born in 1944 and educated at Bristol Grammar School and Selwyn College, Cambridge, Robert started his career as a journalist with the Illustrated London News and the Sunday Times before becoming a full time writer in 1974. He has three children, Sasha, Scarlett and Bruno, and lives with his wife Sandi in London." - Publisher. CONTENTS: Prologue: property of a Lady; Founder: Samuel Baker; Love letters and the vision of Montague Barlow; Peter Wilson; A. Alfred Taubman; Epilogue: royal effects; Dates in the history of Sotheby's. . 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/Fine. 8vo.
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- Bookseller
- LEFT COAST BOOKS (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 024890
- Title
- Sotheby's: Bidding for Class
- Author
- Lacey, Robert
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Fine
- Edition
- 1st
- ISBN 10
- 0316511390
- ISBN 13
- 9780316511391
- Publisher
- Little, Brown and Company
- Place of Publication
- Boston
- Date Published
- 1998
- Size
- 8vo
- Bookseller catalogs
- European / British & Irish; American / 6. Late Modern, 1945-1999; Art Market;
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