Weight | 0.796 kg |
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Dimensions | 282 × 200 × 18 mm |
ISBN | 9781859839928 |
Cover | Hardback |
Publication Year | 2011 |
Publisher | Derby Books Publishing |
£12.00
Leeds in the Eighties and Nineties
This is a photographic history book of the 1980s and 1990s from the Yorkshire Evening Post, chronicling life in Leeds throughout these twenty years.
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