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Item Details

Description

Title: The Vanished Pomps of Yesterday

Description: being Some Random Reminiscences of a British Diplomat. Publishers green cloth with gilt title, gilt vignette. Gilt title to spine. Gift inscription on inside. "'Vanished Pomps of Yesterday' is a lively account of the authors experiences as Secretary of the British Diplomatic Service in Berlin, Vienna and St. Petersburg before World War I." A very lovely copy.

Product Details:

Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton., London

Author: Lord Frederic Hamilton

Date Published: ca.1920

Binding: Hardback

Condition: Very Good

Weight: 662g

Reserve: $10.00

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