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Object Details

Category
Books
Related period
1945-1989 (content)
Creator
Cheshire, Leonard (Author)
Hutchinson (Publisher)
Production date
1961
Place made
London
Dimensions

whole: Dimensions: 22cm., Pagination: 180p. frontis.

Catalogue number
LBY 45909

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