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Local History (Discovering)
by Iredale, David
- Used
- Paperback
- Condition
- F/VG++/ND
- ISBN 10
- 0852634013
- ISBN 13
- 9780852634011
- Seller
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Salisbury, Wiltshire, United Kingdom
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About This Item
SOFTBACK SHIPPED FROM THE UK.* Edition: Reprint.* Impression: 1st. Thus.* Date of Publication: 1985 (1973)* Publisher: Shire Publications Ltd.* Binding and cover condition: Colour illustrated soft card covers. No bumps. minimal shelf wear to edges and corners. No creases to spine or hinge. VG++* Contents condition: PRIVATE COPY NOT EX-LIBRARY. Clean, crisp, bright & tight. No annotations, inscriptions or marks to text, absolutely minimal reading wear. No tanning. FINE* Illustrations: None.* Pages: 60 pp. text. xii pp. note, bibliography and index at rear.* Product Description:- This book describes many different sources of local history discovered by the authors in the course of extensive research and travel throughout Britain and Ireland. Local history is discovered through printed books, local records, national archives, museum collections, newspapers, pictures, maps and, of course, the vigorous memories of local folk. The landscape is a vital source whose every feature adds a chapter or a footnote to an unfolding story that extends far beyond the reach of memory and written record, deep into prehistory and to the very beginnings of settled society in every locality.* This is a NEAR FINE copy with minimal shelf wear reducing it VG++*
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- Bookseller
- Cocksparrow Books
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 4106
- Title
- Local History (Discovering)
- Author
- Iredale, David
- Format/Binding
- Paperback
- Book Condition
- Used - F/VG++/ND
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Reprint 1985
- ISBN 10
- 0852634013
- ISBN 13
- 9780852634011
- Publisher
- Shire Publications Ltd
- Place of Publication
- Aylesbury Bucks. UK 64
- Date Published
- 1977-11-10
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- Hinge
- The portion of the book closest to the spine that allows the book to be opened and closed.
- Reprint
- Any printing of a book which follows the original edition. By definition, a reprint is not a first edition.
- Bumps
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- Edges
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- Spine
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- Shelf Wear
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- Crisp
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- Tight
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- Fine
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