Object details

Category
Books
Related period
Interwar (content)
Creator
ACTON, HAROLD (Author)
Hamish Hamilton (Publisher)
Production date
1984
Place made
London
Dimensions

whole: Dimensions: 20cm., Pagination: 416p., 8p. of plates ill., ports.

Catalogue number
LBY 85 / 244

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