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Open House in Flanders 1914-1918 Chateau De La Motte Au Bois. Translated by Melanie Lind. Introduction by Field-Marshall The Viscount Allenby.
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About This Item
Hardcover. Photographic plates, map, index; xxviii+399pp.; many leaves foxed including title. orig. black cloth gilt, casemark on spine, worn, upper hinge broken, From the collection of Dr Vivien Noakes [1937-2011] who was a leading authority on both Edward Lear and the First World War. No Jacket issued
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- R.G. Watkins Books and Prints
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- Title
- Open House in Flanders 1914-1918 Chateau De La Motte Au Bois. Translated by Melanie Lind. Introduction by Field-Marshall The Viscount Allenby.
- Author
- GRANGE, BARONESS DE LA:
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used
- Keywords
- First Edition, John Murray, 1929. From Phillipps Library Belmont Abbey. first world war
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R.G. Watkins Books and Prints
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Ilminster, Somerset
About R.G. Watkins Books and Prints
Established in Somerset, England in 1985, with retail premises, we now sell principally on the internet. Apart from selling to collectors and other dealers, we have many libraries and museums among our customers. Our aim is offer interesting and unusual items printed, written or drawn on paper.
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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...
- 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...
- Hinge
- The portion of the book closest to the spine that allows the book to be opened and closed.
- Cloth
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- 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....
- Leaves
- Very generally, "leaves" refers to the pages of a book, as in the common phrase, "loose-leaf pages." A leaf is a single sheet...
- Foxed
- Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...
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