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The International Dictionary of Clocks
by ALAN Smith, ED>
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- VG/F/VG++
- ISBN 10
- 1851529071
- ISBN 13
- 9781851529070
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About This Item
HARDBACK "ENGLISH LANGUAGE," SHIPPED FROM THE UK* Edition: 1st. Thus. Reprint. * Impression: 1st.* Date of Publication: 1996 (1988). * Publisher: Chancellor Press. * Binding and cover condition: Colour photo-illustrated glossy laminated boards sowing three antique clocks to front & one at rear, blue & gilt titles to spine and face. No bumps or rubs, no visible faults. FINE.* Jacket condition: Matching dust wrapper. NOT PRICE CLIPPED but showing no shelf price. Minimal shelf wear to top & bottom edges and to head & tail of spine. Now in clear un-attached protective wrapper. VG++ * Contents condition: PRIVATE COPY NOT EX-LIBRARY. Sizeable dedication to ffep. Clean, crisp, tight and bright with no reading wear, no marks to text, no visible faults. VG.* Illustrations: Colour & b/w photos, prints and line drawings throughout. * Pages: 338 pp. text. xv pp. bibliography, index, acknowledgements & blank pages at rear.* Description: This new illustrated dictionary brings together the most recent scholarship in the whole field of horology throughout the world. Alan Smith has been able to call upon a distinguished team of contributors from Canada, Italy, the Netherlands, Spain and the United States of America, as well as from Great Britain, making the book the most international dictionary of its kind ever to be published.* A NEAR FINE copy with minor faults reducing it to VG. Now in clear un-attached protective jacket.* Smith, Alan
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- Bookseller
- Cocksparrow Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 8869
- Title
- The International Dictionary of Clocks
- Author
- ALAN Smith, ED>
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - VG/F/VG++
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Reprint, 1st. Thus.
- ISBN 10
- 1851529071
- ISBN 13
- 9781851529070
- Publisher
- Bounty Books
- Place of Publication
- London UK. 352
- Date Published
- 1996-08-15
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