United Kingdom: West Bromwich : The Free press co.. Good+ with No dust jacket as issued. 1882. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. A professionally rebound 1st edition hardcover, with no dustjacket as issued. Book is half-bound, with gilt lining, title. and bands. Spine ends,edges,bands and corners are well-rubbed. There is some light foxing to text block edges. Internally, marbled endpapers, Small bookbinder's stamp to front endpaper. Clean, ivoried pages are occasionally foxed. Includes 'Pedigrees' appendix; fold-out pedigrees are lightly foxed, with a little edge-wear and single closed tear, but otherwise intact. Newspaper article from date of publication (Free Press, 28th January 1882) laid in. Carefully packaged and despatched within 48 hours from our wee bookshop in Scotland; Charts; 258 pages .

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Bookseller: The Old Bookshelf (GB)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 57815
Title: A history of West Bromwich
Author: Willett, Mary
Format/Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Used - Good+ with No dust jacket as issued
Edition: First Edition; First Printing
Publisher: West Bromwich : The Free press co.
Place of Publication: United Kingdom
Date Published: 1882
Keywords: History, United Kingdom, England, Topography, Genealogy, Family History, West Bromwich
Bookseller catalogs: History: England;

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Welcome to the home of The Old Bookshelf, situated in Campbeltown on the West Coast of Scotland. Our wee bookshop holds over 15,000 New, Antiquarian, Out of Print and Used titles available for immediate despatch. We maintain a wide general stock, specialising in local, Scottish, maritime and military. Out of print and new titles are catalogued every day.Scottish Independent Retail Awards Regional Finalist: 2011 and 2015. Winner 2016

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Foxed: Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...
Text Block: Most simply the inside pages of a book. More precisely, the block of paper formed by the cut and stacked pages of a book....
Rebound: A book in which the pages have been bound into a covering replacing the original covering issued by the publisher.
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...
Jacket: Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
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....
Good+: A term used to denote a condition a slight grade better than Good.
Gilt: The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...