Yacht Gear and Gadgets
by Conor, O'Brien
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good- in Poor dust jacket
- Seller
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London, Greater London, United Kingdom
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About This Item
Oxford University Press. Very Good- in Poor dust jacket. 1945. Hardback. Dust jacket tatty and a touch grubby, large tears to the edges and loss at the head/ tail of the spine, the rear cover is detached and fixed in place by the removable archival sleeve; Boards firm and clean, bound in bright blue cloth with sharp corners; Internally clean, no ownership mark or annotation, illustrated in B+W, endpapers discoloured and foxed; Binding tight. Overall a nice, sturdy copy in a tattered jacket. ; 7.5 X 5.1 X 0.5 inches; 88 pages .
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Details
- Bookseller
- Walden Books (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 44403
- Title
- Yacht Gear and Gadgets
- Author
- Conor, O'Brien
- Format/Binding
- Hardback
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good- in Poor dust jacket
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press
- Date Published
- 1945
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Walden Books
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London, Greater London
About Walden Books
Second-hand and antiquarian booksellers since 1977, in present shop since 1979, open Thurs-Sunday, with an emphasis on History of Art and Architecture, Photography, Literature and Poetry, Literary Biography and Criticism and the the History of London.
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- Tight
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- Cloth
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- Tail
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- Poor
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