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Book Title: Walter Sickert: Alife
Item Length: 7.8in
Item Height: 1.5in
Item Width: 5.1in
Author: Matthew Sturgis
Format: Perfect
Language: English
Topic: Individual Artists / General, Personal Memoirs, Literary, Artists, Architects, Photographers
Publisher: HarperCollins
Publication Year: 2011
Genre: Biography & Autobiography, Art
Item Weight: 18.7 Oz
Number of Pages: 784 Pages
