Art & Architecture
Introducing… our broad range of books on Architecture, Photography, Art Forms, Film TV & Radio, Dance and Performing Arts, Music and History of Art. In our Film TV & Radio section, we have many other sub-genres such as Books That Inspired Movies including Gone Girl, The Enigma, Fifty Shades of Grey and Foxcatcher. Our Music section includes biographies and sheet music of famous musicians past and present, international and Irish – Elvis, Taylor Swift, David Bowie, Bob Geldof, Ed Sheeran, One Direction, Bono and many more.
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Art & Architecture
Paperback. Initiates a gender-based framework for analyzing Latin American and Caribbean folk art. Exploring the roles of women as artists and consumers in specific cultural contexts, this title looks at a range of artistic forms from across Latin America, including Colombian molas (textiles), Andean weavings, Mexican ceramics, Mayan hipiles (dresses). Editor(s): Bartra, Eli. Num Pages: 256 pages, 50 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KJ; 1KL; AFTB; JFFK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5665 x 3963 x 13. Weight in Grams: 363.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
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- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780822331704
- ISBN
- 9780822331704
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€ 27.99€ 26.09
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Paperback. Features essays on cinema, the body, and the experience of modernity. Focusing on the experience of technological spectacle in American popular culture, this book reveals how popular culture tames the threats posed by technology and urban modernity, by immersing people in kinetic environments like those traversed by Plastic Man and Superman. Num Pages: 296 pages, 55 illus.,17 in color. BIC Classification: APFA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 19. Weight in Grams: 204.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 296
- Condition
- New
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- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780822331193
- ISBN
- 9780822331193
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€ 29.99€ 29.23
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paperback. The history of African Americans in film musicals and their reception by Black audiences and critics. Num Pages: 352 pages, 68 b&w photos, 5 figures. BIC Classification: 1KBB; APF; JFSL3. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5969 x 3963 x 31. Weight in Grams: 730.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 352
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780822329633
- ISBN
- 9780822329633
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€ 32.99€ 31.41
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Paperback. Looking at a hundred-year history of film and capitalism, this title theorizes a cultural history that illuminates the spaces where film and the nation transcend their customary borders, where culture and capital crisscross - and in doing so, develops a new way of understanding historical change and transformation in modern Japan and beyond. Series: Asia-Pacific: Culture, Politics, and Society. Num Pages: 328 pages, 72 illus. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; APF; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 227 x 156 x 27. Weight in Grams: 506.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 328
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780822329398
- ISBN
- 9780822329398
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€ 30.99€ 30.35
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Paperback. Richard Bruce Nugent (1906-1987) was a writer, painter, illustrator, and popular bohemian personality who lived at the centre of the Harlem Renaissance. This title provides biographical information about Nugent's life and situating his art in relation to the visual and literary currents that influenced him. Illustrator(s): Nugent, Richard Bruce. Editor(s): Wirth, Thomas H. Num Pages: 312 pages, 78 illustrations, including 16-pages in color. BIC Classification: 2ABM; AGB; DQ; DSBH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5969 x 3963 x 24. Weight in Grams: 553.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 312
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780822329138
- ISBN
- 9780822329138
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€ 30.99€ 30.33
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Paperback. What does camp have to do with capitalism? How have queer men created a philosophy of commodity culture? This book responds to these questions by arguing that post-World War II gay male subcultures have fostered their own ways not only of consuming mass culture but of producing it as well. It is suitable for students of cinema, and queer studies. Series: Series Q. Num Pages: 240 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: APFA; JFD; JFSK2. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 237 x 149 x 19. Weight in Grams: 390.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 240
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822328896
- ISBN
- 9780822328896
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€ 27.99€ 26.08
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Paperback. Suitable for those interested in art history, theories of gender, and postcolonial studies, this book contests the idea that Orientalist art simply expresses the politics of Western domination and argues instead that it was often produced through cross-cultural interactions. Editor(s): Beaulieu, Jill; Roberts, Mary. Series: Objects/Histories. Num Pages: 244 pages, 53 photographs (6 in color). BIC Classification: ACV; AG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 18. Weight in Grams: 440.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 244
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780822328742
- ISBN
- 9780822328742
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€ 27.99€ 26.08
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Paperback. Addresses the problems defined by writers and artists during the post-dictatorship years in Argentina and Chile, years in which both countries aggressively adopted neo-liberal market-driven economies. This work is suitable for Latin Americanists, literary and political theorists and those involved with the study of postmodernism and globalisation. Series: Latin America Otherwise. Num Pages: 352 pages, 10 b&w photos. BIC Classification: 1KLSA; 1KLSH; 3JJP; A; DSBH; HBJK; HBLW3; JFC; JHM; KCS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 153 x 23. Weight in Grams: 522.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 352
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780822328186
- ISBN
- 9780822328186
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€ 32.99€ 31.41
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Paperback. From the silent era to the present day, popular music has been a key component of the film experience. This title aims to fill this gap, as its contributors provide detailed analyses of individual films as well as historical overviews of genres, styles of music, and approaches to film scoring. Editor(s): Knight, Arthur; Wojcik, Pamela Robertson. Num Pages: 504 pages, 36 b&w photos. BIC Classification: APF; AVG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5969 x 3963 x 33. Weight in Grams: 757.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 504
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822327974
- ISBN
- 9780822327974
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€ 35.99€ 34.67
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Paperback. This volume examines Asian staging of Western canonical theatre, particularly Shakespeare's plays, arguing that intercultural performance questions the settled assumptions we bring to our interpretations of familiar texts. Series: Post-Contemporary Interventions. Num Pages: 312 pages, 9 illustrations. BIC Classification: AN; DSG; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 157 x 23. Weight in Grams: 518.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 312
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780822327639
- ISBN
- 9780822327639
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€ 30.99€ 28.27
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Paperback. Yellow Music is the first history of the emergence of Chinese popular music and the larger urban media culture with which it was closely associated in early twentieth-century China. This book revises understandings of race, politics, popular culture, and technology in the making of modern Chinese culture. Num Pages: 224 pages, 12 b&w illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FPC; AVGJ; GTB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5817 x 3963 x 17. Weight in Grams: 386.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780822326946
- ISBN
- 9780822326946
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€ 28.15
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Paperback. In the early twentieth century, a group of elite Eastern-coast women turned to the American Southwest in search of an alternative to European-derived concepts of culture. This book provides a narrative of the growing influence that this network of women had on the Native American art market to investigate the social construction of value. Series: Objects/Histories. Num Pages: 240 pages, 10 b&w photographs. BIC Classification: 1KBBW; AB; ACBK; GTB; JFC; JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 19. Weight in Grams: 390.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 240
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780822326182
- ISBN
- 9780822326182
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€ 28.15
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Paperback. Revises American film history by recuperating the extensive and all-but-forgotten participation of black film critics during the early twentieth century. This work excavates a wealth of early critical writing on the cinema by black cultural critics, academics, journalists, poets, writers, and film fans. Num Pages: 376 pages, 19 photographs. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJ; APFA; JFSL3. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 154 x 27. Weight in Grams: 630.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 376
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822326144
- ISBN
- 9780822326144
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€ 32.99€ 31.41
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paperback. A collection of writings from the influential feminist art journal "M/E/A/N/I/N/G", with a foreward by Johanna Drucker. This book is of interest to artists, art historians, critics, and a general audience interested in the views of practising artists. Editor(s): Bee, Susan; Schor, Mira. Num Pages: 496 pages. BIC Classification: AB; DNF; JFFK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 231 x 156 x 32. Weight in Grams: 740.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 496
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822325666
- ISBN
- 9780822325666
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€ 33.99€ 30.47
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Paperback. Combines psychoanalytic and cultural theory to advance an innovative interpretation of Renaissance history and subjectivity. This title discusses the distinctly economic character of early modern subjectivity and how this, too, is implicated in our own modern modes of historical understanding. Num Pages: 216 pages, 26 b&w illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 2AB; 3H; 3JB; ACND; AGB; CFD; DSGS; HBJD1; HBLH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 156 x 16. Weight in Grams: 318.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 216
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780822325475
- ISBN
- 9780822325475
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Paperback. Since Tsarist times, Roma in Russia (known to others as Gypsies) have been portrayed as rebels, isolated from society and excluded from mainstream history. This book examines how Roma themselves have negotiated such dualities, in both everyday interactions and in stage performances. Num Pages: 320 pages, 18 b&w photographs, 1 table, 1 map. BIC Classification: 1DVUA; 3JH; 3JJ; AN; HBTB; JFC; JFSL; JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 227 x 154 x 23. Weight in Grams: 499.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 320
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822324935
- ISBN
- 9780822324935
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€ 30.99€ 30.33
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Paperback. Presents a collection of reviews and articles originally published in gay community tabloids, academic journals, and anthologies. This work charts the emergence and maturation of author's sensibilities while lending an important historical perspective to the growth of film theory and criticism as well as queer moviemaking. Num Pages: 328 pages, 59 b&w photographs. BIC Classification: APFA; JFSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5995 x 3963 x 24. Weight in Grams: 526.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 328
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822324683
- ISBN
- 9780822324683
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€ 30.99€ 30.19
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Paperback. Presents a social and cultural history of exploitation films. Analysing many films, such as "The Road to Ruin", "Modern Motherhood", and more, this book demonstrates that these films were more than simply 'bad' movies. It shows how they evolved during a period of forty years and how, during that time, they shaped public policies and attitudes. Num Pages: 488 pages, 59 b&w photographs, 7 figures. BIC Classification: 3JJG; 3JJH; APF; HBT. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 225 x 155 x 35. Weight in Grams: 796.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 488
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780822323747
- ISBN
- 9780822323747
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€ 34.99€ 33.59
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Black Venus: Sexualized Savages, Primal Fears, and Primitive Narrative...
T. Denean Sharpley-Whiting
Paperback. Presents a feminist study of the representations of black women in the literary, cultural, and scientific imagination of nineteenth-century France. Employing psychoanalysis, feminist film theory, and the critical race theory, this book presents an argument that black women historically invoked both desire and primal fear in French men. Num Pages: 208 pages, 5 photographs, 1 table. BIC Classification: 2ADF; APFA; DSBF; JFFK; JFSL3; JMAF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 17. Weight in Grams: 318.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 208
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822323402
- ISBN
- 9780822323402
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€ 27.05
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Paperback. Is exile a falling away from a source of creativity associated with the wholeness of home and one's own language, or is it a spur to creativity? This book examines the complexities of exile and the diversity of its experiences. It is suitable for those who are interested in the problems of displacement and diaspora and the European Holocaust. Editor(s): Suleiman, Susan Rubin. Num Pages: 456 pages, 16 b&w photographs. BIC Classification: 2ADF; ABA; JFC; JPFN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 160 x 25. Weight in Grams: 756.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 456
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780822322153
- ISBN
- 9780822322153
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€ 33.99€ 33.59
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Paperback. Examines how comic books played an important role in the development of a stable, legitimate state. This book investigates the complex dynamics of the politics of censorship occasioned by Mexican comic books. It is useful to those with an interest in Mexican history, Latin American studies, cultural studies, and popular culture. Num Pages: 224 pages, 16 b&w photographs. BIC Classification: 1KLCM; 3JJG; 3JJH; 3JJP; AKLC; HBJK; HBLW; JFC; JPA; JPVN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 230 x 154 x 16. Weight in Grams: 354.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780822321415
- ISBN
- 9780822321415
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€ 27.99€ 26.08
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Paperback. Examines the dynamic relationships between racial and sexual difference in Hollywood film, from the 1980s and 1990s. Informed by contemporary debates in film and cultural studies, as well as feminist and critical race theory, this book throws light on the intersection of popular film and cultural politics. Num Pages: 280 pages. BIC Classification: APFA; JFC; JFSJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 151 x 20. Weight in Grams: 458.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 280
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822320418
- ISBN
- 9780822320418
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€ 29.99€ 27.17
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€ 27.17
Paperback. Suitable for students and scholars of modernism, Chinese literature and history, film studies, and cultural studies, this book offers both a historical narrative and a critical analysis of the cultural visions and experiences of China's post-Mao era. Series: Post-Contemporary Interventions. Num Pages: 448 pages, 12 b&w photographs. BIC Classification: 1FPC; APF; HBJF; HBLW3; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 157 x 32. Weight in Grams: 778.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1996
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 448
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822318460
- ISBN
- 9780822318460
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€ 32.99€ 32.49
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Paperback. Charting the intersection of technology and ideology, cultural production and social science, this title explores early-twentieth-century representations of non-Western indigenous peoples in films ranging from the documentary to the spectacular to the scientific. Num Pages: 320 pages, 50 b&w photographs. BIC Classification: APFA; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 154 x 22. Weight in Grams: 532.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1996
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 320
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780822318408
- ISBN
- 9780822318408
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Condition: New
€ 30.99€ 28.28
€ 30.99
€ 28.28