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2 Finely Bound Books - The Hobbit & The Lysistrata

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Two Finely Bound Books - The Hobbit and The Lysistrata. Consisting of JRR Tolkein's The Hobbit, as published in 1966 by Houghton Mifflin, bound in green simulated leather, in the publisher's slipcase with label on one side. This is a 10th printing. And Aristophanes' Lysistrata, ilustrated by Pablo Picasso, published by the Easton Press in 1983. Bound in red leather.

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Two stains on the label on the slipcase of the Hobbit, otherwise fine.

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2 Finely Bound Books - The Hobbit & The Lysistrata

Name: 2 Finely Bound Books - The Hobbit & The Lysistrata
SKU: 64282092
Price: 25 USD
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