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Business in great waters: the story of British fishermen
by Dyson, John
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good in Fair dust jacket
- ISBN 10
- 0207957061
- ISBN 13
- 9780207957062
- Seller
-
Ibstock, Leicestershire, United Kingdom
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
Angus & Robertson. Good in Fair dust jacket. 1977. First Edition. Hardcover. 0207957061 . Very clean & tightly bound hardback book with a gift inscription on the half title page verso and mark where a price has been badly erased on top of the title page, in an unclipped dustjacket which is rubbed at the edges, has a closed repaired tear at the front cover/spine and has minor loss at spine ends. 336 pages, photos & illustrations in the text, maps, appendices, bibliography, index .
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Details
- Bookseller
- Aucott & Thomas
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 55681
- Title
- Business in great waters: the story of British fishermen
- Author
- Dyson, John
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good in Fair dust jacket
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0207957061
- ISBN 13
- 9780207957062
- Publisher
- Angus & Robertson
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1977
- Keywords
- 0207957061, Fishing, Trawling, Grimsby, Herrings
- Bookseller catalogs
- History / Maritime;
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Aucott & Thomas
Biblio member since 2003
Ibstock, Leicestershire
About Aucott & Thomas
We have been selling books by post since 1995. Apart from our specialist interests, we carry a constantly changing stock of around 5000 fiction and non-fiction books covering a wide range of subjects. We can supply lists of stock in any particular area of interest on request. http://www.aucott.com/
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- Spine
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- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- Half Title
- The blank front page which appears just prior to the title page, and typically contains only the title of the book, although, at...
- Title Page
- A page at the front of a book which may contain the title of the book, any subtitles, the authors, contributors, editors, the...
- Fair
- is a worn book that has complete text pages (including those with maps or plates) but may lack endpapers, half-title, etc....
- Verso
- The page bound on the left side of a book, opposite to the recto page.
- 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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