Clocks by Fleet, Simon

Littlehampton Book Services, Limited, 1972. Hardcover. Good. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

Used - Good. Used book that is in clean, average condition without any missing pages.

London: Octopus Books. Fine copy in fine dust jacket. 1972. reprint. hardcover. Small 4to, 96 pp. .

Littlehampton Book Services Ltd. Used - Good. Good condition. Very Good dust jacket. In protective mylar cover.

Octopus Publising Group Plc. Used - Very Good. Very Good condition. Good dust jacket. A copy that may have a few cosmetic defects. May also contain a few markings such as an owner’s name, short gifter’s inscription or light stamp.

Littlehampton Book Services Ltd, 9/1/1972. Hardcover. Good. 9x8x0. Hardback with dust jacket in good condition. Some light shelf and use wear, including an inscription written inside of the front end paper to a prior owner, and a corner clipped from the front inside flap of the dust jacket, otherwise appears to be a good clean copy!

Octopus, 1972. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. Clean and tight. DJ and bottom edge of boards has light wear. DJ in archival cover.

Hardback. Good.

Octopus. Very Good+. 1972. Hardcover. 0706400364 . New-looking book with dust edges; tight and unmarked in lightly rubbed dust jacket. 136 illustrations ; 9.50 X 8.10 X 0.70 inches; 96 pages .

London: Octopus Books Ltd, 1972. 1st Ed. Gift dedication in ink inside front cover. Some chipping bottom edge of book, overal content excellent. Hardbound. 8vo. 96 Pgs.. VG in Chipped & Taped DJ/Good. Clocks by Simon Fleet. Published by Octopus Books Ltd, London, 1972. 1st Edition. Hardbound. Paper DJ. Size 8vo (up to 9-1/2'' tall). Condition: VG in Chipped & Taped DJ. Gift dedication in ink inside front cover. Some chipping bottom edge of book, overal content excellent. 96 Pgs. ISBN 0706400364. The author begins his story with man's earliest timepiec, a stick stuck in the ground to cast a shawod, and traces its history and evolution through sundials and waterclocks, hour glasses and measured candles to the mechanical clock as we know it. He deals with domestic clocks from the end of the 14th century to the present day and with chronometers, Japanese clocks and monumental clocks. Famous clockmakers, both European and American, and the patronage by Royalty of clockmakers all over Europe, are… Read More