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This 60th anniversary edition, the first reprinting of The Other Place in more than forty years, includes a new introduction by Priestley scholar John Baxendale. Priestley's classic novel of psychological terror, Benighted (1927), is also available from Valancourt Books.
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- EditoreValancourt Books
- Data di pubblicazione2013
- ISBN 10 1939140390
- ISBN 13 9781939140395
- RilegaturaCopertina flessibile
- Numero di pagine184
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