COCKS, E M SOMER

ASSOCIATION COPY WITH FORMER OWNER NOTED ON FFEP, octavo, grey mottled cloth boards, red lettering to spine, frontispiece, 285pp, illus/photos, VG (boards sl warped, light tanning to spine & board edges, light tanning & soiling to page edges & eps, minor staining to fore-edges of prelims, prev. owner's ink stamp to front & rear eps, prev. owner's annotation in ink & pencil to ffep & pg285) in d/w, VG- (moderate chipping/loss & archival tape repairs to edges, heavy staining to rear, light tanning to spine, minor general soiling & wrinkling, light scuffing to front flap/folds)

PUBLISHER: The Caxton Press 1958

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HOWARD, BASIL

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PUBLISHER: A H & A W Reed 1940

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ROMANO, LALLA & MOORE, BRIAN ROBERT (Trans)

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PERRY, SARAH

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SETH, VIKRAM

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KUKAFKA, DANYA

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SMYTHE, LUKE

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PUBLISHER: Massey University Press 2019

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WOODWARD, ROBIN

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PUBLISHER: Whitespace 2010

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MOHANTY, GOURAV

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