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AA BOOK OF BRITISH VILLAGES
by Unknown
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- VG+/VG+/GD+
- Seller
-
Salisbury, Wiltshire, United Kingdom
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About This Item
HARDBACK, SHIPPED FROM THE UK* Edn: 1st. Reprint* Imp: 1st.* Date of Publication: 1981* Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton for the AA Drive Publications.* Binding and cover condition: Quarter bound, gilt title to mid-brown spine & colour illustration to beige cloth face. No bumps, minor rubs, minimal shelf wear to upper & lower edges and to head and tail of spine. VG++* Jacket condition: Colour illustrated dust wrapper, dark brown titles to face and to badly sunned spine. Price clipped, showing no shelf price. Some shelf wear to top & bottom edges and to head & tail of spine, in clear protective wrapper. GD+* Contents condition: PRIVATE COPY NOT EX-LIBRARY. Coloured end papers (beige). Top edge aged and grubby. Clean, crisp, tight and bright with only light reading wear, no marks to text, very slight marks to fore-edge. VG+* Illustrations: Numerous colour & monochrome photos, line drawings, maps and diagrams within text throughout.* Pages: 447 pp. text. i pp., acknowledgements at rear.* Description: A fresh look at one of Britain's oldest and best-loved institutions. More than 700 of the most beautiful and interesting villages throughout the length and breadth of Britain are described ~ from Mousehole on the Land's End peninsula to Durness on the northernmost coast of Scotland.* A VG+ text copy with some minor faults in a protected but grubby dust jacket.*
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Details
- Bookseller
- Cocksparrow Books
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 29
- Title
- AA BOOK OF BRITISH VILLAGES
- Author
- Unknown
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - VG+/VG+/GD+
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Thus, Reprint 1981
- Publisher
- DRIVE PUBLICATIONS
- Place of Publication
- London UK 448
- Date Published
- 1981-01-01
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
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About the Seller
Cocksparrow Books
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Salisbury, Wiltshire
About Cocksparrow Books
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- Tail
- The heel of the spine.
- Shelf Wear
- Shelf wear (shelfwear) describes damage caused over time to a book by placing and removing a book from a shelf. This damage is...
- Crisp
- A term often used to indicate a book's new-like condition. Indicates that the hinges are not loosened. A book described as crisp...
- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- Sunned
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- Price Clipped
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- Edges
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- Bumps
- Indicates that the affected part of the book has been impacted in such a way so as to cause a flattening, indention, or light...
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
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