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Atlantic Ships
by John H. Biles
- Used
- Paperback
- Condition
- Good. Staples slightly rusty. Wrappers tanned. Pages lightly age-tanned, dog-eared a little at the top corner of some of the lea
- Seller
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Peasedown St. John, Somerset, United Kingdom
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About This Item
Institution of Engineers and Shipbuilders in Scotland, 1929. Paperback (Stapled Wrappers) (No Dust Wrapper.). Good. Staples slightly rusty. Wrappers tanned. Pages lightly age-tanned, dog-eared a little at the top corner of some of the leaves with a gentle, central, vertical crease running throughout the text block. Ephemeral. . Paperback (Stapled Wrappers). Physically 8½” x 5½” (0.3 kg); 39pp; Includes a laid in slip from Sir John H. Biles on business stationery. Illustrated by way of: Fold-out Diagrams [1]; || The book is on my shelves and will be carefully packed and posted from the pastoral paradise of Peasedown St. John, Bath, by a real bookseller in a real book shop - with my personal guarantee and my beady eye on the Consumer Contracts Regulations. REMEMBER! Buying my copy means the bookshop Jack Russells get their supper! My Book #176351|| Condition:
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Details
- Bookseller
- BookLovers of Bath
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 176351
- Title
- Atlantic Ships
- Author
- John H. Biles
- Format/Binding
- Paperback (Stapled Wrappers) (No Dust Wrapper.)
- Book Condition
- Used - Good. Staples slightly rusty. Wrappers tanned. Pages lightly age-tanned, dog-eared a little at the top corner of some of the lea
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Paperback
- Publisher
- Institution of Engineers and Shipbuilders in Scotland
- Date Published
- 1929
- Keywords
- germans blue ribbon atlantic production ships clyde liner problem admiralty cunard build vessel british passenger-carrying
- Bookseller catalogs
- Ships & The Sea;
Terms of Sale
BookLovers of Bath
As a distance seller based in England, I am required to abide by the terms of the "Distance Selling Act", details of which are freely available. This ensures that you have the highest degree of protection when purchasing from me. Alongside that, I prefer to treat my customers in the manner that I expect to be treated; my guarantee is complete satisfaction or your money back - I aim to please, not just for the one book sale but to ensure that should you require another book, another time that my name against it means it gets your consideration.
About the Seller
BookLovers of Bath
Biblio member since 2006
Peasedown St. John, Somerset
About BookLovers of Bath
BookLovers of Bath is set in the pastoral idyll of Peasedown St. John in Somerset (God's Own Country) in the south west of England. My wife and I owned the village Post Office until the modern world caught up with us in 2014. At that point I converted the premises to a small book shop, Fact or Fable, with a stock of around 4,000 titles in stock. I've been selling books worldwide since 1997 and rather hope to get the hang of it shortly…
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- Wrappers
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- Text Block
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- Leaves
- Very generally, "leaves" refers to the pages of a book, as in the common phrase, "loose-leaf pages." A leaf is a single sheet...
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