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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Title: A Sense of Place in the New Literatures in English Editor: Peggy Nightingale Stephen Gray, Yasmine Gooneratne, Helen Tiffin, Manfred Mackenzie, K. L. Goodwin, Kevin Magarey, Ronald Blaber, Haydn M. Williams, Nihal Fernando, et al Publisher: University of Queensland Press, St. Lucia Date: 1986 Edition: First Edition Format: Hardcover in dust jacket Pages: 152 Size: 8vo Condition: Very good + in Very Good + dust jacket. Moderate shelf wear in very good dust jacket with edge wear, tiny tears to bottom edges. See Photos clphE. …

455 pages illustrated throughout in colour. Hard cover 30.5x25cms. ISBN: 9782959471100. The first of three projected volumes cataloging the snuffboxes and related items in the David and Mikhail Iakobachvili Collection. This volume studies 393 18th-century snuffboxes, each illustrated in actual size and discussed in full. The catalogue is organized firstly by material - mixed materials, gold, and gold with enamel - followed by the work of James Cox and his contemporaries, automaton boxes, boxes from Hanau, and the production of the Frères Jordan. Essays discuss the production of gold boxes in Paris, changing tastes in British presentation boxes, Russian gold boxes from Pauzié to Fabergé, and French diplomatic boxes. Text in English.…