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Random Reflections of a West Country Master Craftsman
by Beazer, C.H.G
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- VG++/VG+/VG+
- ISBN 10
- 0950770906
- ISBN 13
- 9780950770901
- Seller
-
Salisbury, Wiltshire, United Kingdom
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About This Item
HARDBACK, SHIPPED FROM THE UK* Edn: 1st.* Imp: 1st.* Date of Publication: 1981* Publisher: C.H.G.Beazer.* Binding and cover condition: Light taupe cloth, gilt title to spine & face. No bumps or rubs, minimal shelf wear to head and tail of spine. VG+* Jacket condition: Colour illustrated dust wrapper, black titles to spine and face. NOT PRICE CLIPPED but showing no shelf price. Absolutely minimal shelf wear to top & bottom edges and to head & tail of spine. Now in clear protective wrapper. VG+* Contents condition: PRIVATE COPY NOT EX-LIBRARY. Clean, crisp, tight and bright with no reading wear, no marks to text, very slight marks to prelims & top edge, otherwise no visible faults. VG++.* Illustrations: A number of colour & b/w photos, line drawings and diagrams within text throughout.* Pages: 156 pp. text. iii pp., appendix, index & blank pages at rear.* Description: This is the story of a truly remarkable and many-sided man. Born of parents of modest means into a large family, he tells of his early years in the South-Gloucestershire village of Marshfield. Here he began a life-long study of the stone-mason?s craft that was to raise him ? as apprentice, journeyman and master ? from penniless country lad to successful head of a large construction group. He is stricken by polio but his dogged determination leads him on to apiculture, gardening and a love of Rugby football. This is a valuable addition to the social history of our time.* A NEAR FINE text copy of the 1st edition with some minor faults in a VG+ protected dust jacket.*
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- Bookseller
- Cocksparrow Books
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 2692
- Title
- Random Reflections of a West Country Master Craftsman
- Author
- Beazer, C.H.G
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - VG++/VG+/VG+
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition Thus
- ISBN 10
- 0950770906
- ISBN 13
- 9780950770901
- Publisher
- C.H.G.Beazer
- Place of Publication
- Bath UK. 159
- Date Published
- 1981-11-05
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