The Observer's Book of European Costume.
by Geoffrey Squire & Pauline Baynes:
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- See description
- ISBN 10
- 0723215219
- ISBN 13
- 9780723215219
- Seller
-
Tewkesbury, United Kingdom
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
London: Frederick Warne & co, 1975. First edition (hardback). 16mo (14cm by 9cm), 192pp. Text illustrations throughout by Pauline Baynes. Original grey cloth, dustwrapper. Bookplate to the front free endpaper, minor spotting to the edges of the text block, else the book is in very good condition; the dustwrapper is in good to very good condition (slight sunning of the spine panel). Observer book 54. ISBN 0723215219
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Details
- Bookseller
- Cornell Books Limited (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 75046
- Title
- The Observer's Book of European Costume.
- Author
- Geoffrey Squire & Pauline Baynes:
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0723215219
- ISBN 13
- 9780723215219
- Publisher
- London: Frederick Warne & co, 1975.
- Place of Publication
- London
- This edition first published
- 1975
Terms of Sale
Cornell Books Limited
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About the Seller
Cornell Books Limited
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Tewkesbury
About Cornell Books Limited
We are a medium-sized bookshop located in a small country town in the west of England. The shop is open for business from 1030 to 1700 Monday to Saturday. The building is a fifteenth-century former public house. We are still awaiting the day when we find a book older than the shop itself!
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