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Timpson's English Country Inns
by Timpson, John
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Vg/F/VG+
- ISBN 10
- 0747208263
- ISBN 13
- 9780747208266
- Seller
-
Salisbury, Wiltshire, United Kingdom
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About This Item
HARDBACK SHIPPED FROM THE UK* Edition: 1st.* Impression: 1st. Full number line.* Date of Publication: 1995* Publisher: Headline Book Publishing.* Binding and cover condition: Textured dark blue cloth. Gilt title to spine. No bumps or rubs, no visible faults. FINE* Jacket condition: Colour photo-illustrated cover in clear plastic protector. NOT PRICE CLIPPED, showing shelf price of £17.99. Slight shelf wear to top & bottom edge and to head & tail of spine. VG+* Contents condition: Ex-Library with normal stamps, labels and biro price to prelims, sellotape holding cover to fep, (back flap pocketed) and label to spine. Clean, crisp, tight and bright with little reading wear, no marks to text, a surprisingly clean copy. VG+* Illustrations: Colour photos throughout.* Pages: 215 pp. text. i pp. Index at rear.* Description: This is not intended to be another good beer guide, nor indeed another guide to good pubs, although all the inns selected by the author are good ones, and they all sell good real ale. What he has primarily looked for are inns with something special about them - unusual histories, strange legends, curious characters, odd features and he has found them for your delight and delectation.* A NEAR FINE copy of the 1st/1st fnl. with library stamps etc reducing it to VG+. Protected dust jacket.*
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- Seller
- Cocksparrow Books
(GB)
- Seller's Inventory #
- 3356
- Title
- Timpson's English Country Inns
- Author
- Timpson, John
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Vg/F/VG+
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st. Edn, 1st. Imp. FNL.
- ISBN 10
- 0747208263
- ISBN 13
- 9780747208266
- Publisher
- Headline Book Publishing
- Place of Publication
- London Uk 216
- This edition first published
- 1995
- Size
- 24.8 x 20.9 x 2.4 cm
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Cocksparrow Books
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Salisbury, Wiltshire
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- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
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- Tail
- The heel of the spine.
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