Two Countrymen in Council, Arcadians Both
by W H Thornton and F W Hobbs
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good (repairs to spine)/No Jacket
- Seller
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Peter Tavy, United Kingdom
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About This Item
Torquay: Andrew Iredale, 1901. A gossipy, homely, fireside sort of book; a book of stories and legends and traditions; a book of natural history and of sport; a book of the farm, and of the field and of the flood; a book of pigskin and of partridges; of men and of women mostly of the older sort. Written by two Devon men, one living by the Moors and consorting with the moormen, the other living nearer the Northern Sea and hearing the wind howling over the Holsworthy hills. RARE! 182pp . Gift Inscription March 15 1902. First Edition. Cloth. Very Good (repairs to spine)/No Jacket. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾". HARDBACK.
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- Bookseller
- Bookfarm (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 999298
- Title
- Two Countrymen in Council, Arcadians Both
- Author
- W H Thornton and F W Hobbs
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good (repairs to spine)
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Andrew Iredale
- Place of Publication
- Torquay
- Date Published
- 1901
- Keywords
- Holsworthy, Dartmoor, Devon, Torquay,
- Bookseller catalogs
- Humour; Naturalist; Social History; Local History; Dartmoor; Devon; Hunting;
- Size
- 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾"
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
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Peter Tavy
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- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- First Edition
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- 12mo
- A duodecimo is a book approximately 7 by 4.5 inches in size, or similar in size to a contemporary mass market paperback. Also...
- Cloth
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