Object details

Category
Books
Related period
Interwar (content)
Creator
KOESTLER, ARTHUR (Author)
LEFT BOOK CLUB (Author)
Gollancz (Publisher)
Production date
1937
Place made
London
Dimensions

whole: Dimensions: 20cm., Pagination: 384p. ill., facsims.

Catalogue number
LBY 79 / 2932

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