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London Except the Cities of London and Westminster: (Penguin Buildings of England Series No. BE6)
by Nikolaus Pevsner
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good
- Seller
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Tarrington, Herefordshire, United Kingdom
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About This Item
London: Penguin Books, 1952. 1st Edition . Very Good/Very Good. 4.75 x 7.25 inches (12 x 19 cm). Dust jacket: Fading to spine and front cover. Slight rubbing to edges. Price clipped. Preserved in a removable jacket protector. Overall jacket condition is Very Good. Book: Pale orange cloth binding. Light browning to page edges and slight offsetting to endpapers. Very clean text throughout. First printing, with series number B6 misprinted as B5 to the half title page. A very nice example. Overall book condition is Very Good. Size: 4.75 x 7.25 inches (12 x 19 cm). Hardback. Printed pages: 496
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- Bookseller
- Tarrington Books
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1210E059
- Title
- London Except the Cities of London and Westminster: (Penguin Buildings of England Series No. BE6)
- Author
- Nikolaus Pevsner
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Penguin Books
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1952
- Size
- 4.75 x 7.25 inches (12 x 19 cm)
- Keywords
- , Architecture
- Bookseller catalogs
- Architecture; Penguin, Pelican & Puffin;
Terms of Sale
Tarrington Books
30 day return guarantee, with full refund including original shipping costs for up to 30 days after delivery if an item arrives misdescribed or damaged.
About the Seller
Tarrington Books
Biblio member since 2015
Tarrington, Herefordshire
About Tarrington Books
A family run bookshop located in the heart of rural Herefordshire. Large selection of children's literature, crime fiction, military, history, travel, vintage paperbacks, quality antiquarian volumes & fine bindings. We offer free UK postage on all items and pride ourselves on our safe packaging and rapid dispatch of orders. Browsers welcome by appointment.
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- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Edges
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- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Half Title
- The blank front page which appears just prior to the title page, and typically contains only the title of the book, although, at...
- Price Clipped
- When a book is described as price-clipped, it indicates that the portion of the dust jacket flap that has the publisher's...
- Title Page
- A page at the front of a book which may contain the title of the book, any subtitles, the authors, contributors, editors, the...
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- 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....
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