The Art of Bee-Keeping
by HAMILTON, William
- Used
- good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good
- Seller
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Leeds, West Yorkshire, United Kingdom
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About This Item
York: The Herald Printing Works, 1945. Good. Second impression, November 1945. 8vo, pp. [6], 182 + b/w frontis, plates and illustrations. Green cloth with black lettering to spine. Rubbed and faded, spine baggy. Edges tanned. POIs to ffep, including the author's own?: 'William Hamilton/ 18th March 1946'. Tender inner hinges. Some foxing to endpapers and prelims, occasionally to text block, which is toned (as usual with war-time paper production). Else, a clean copy, with bright plates. At the time of publication, Hamilton was Lecturer in Bee-Keeping at the University of Leeds, and based at its Agricultural Institute in Tadcaster.
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- Bookseller
- Quair Books (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 998
- Title
- The Art of Bee-Keeping
- Author
- HAMILTON, William
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- York: The Herald Printing Works
- Date Published
- 1945
- Keywords
- Natural History
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- FFEP
- A common abbreviation for Front Free End Paper. Generally, it is the first page of a book and is part of a single sheet that...
- Text Block
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- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Cloth
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- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...