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Rural Denmark and Its Lessons
by Haggard, H. Rider
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good with no dust jacket
- Seller
-
Dunedin, New Zealand, New Zealand
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About This Item
London: Longmans, Green and Co.. Good with no dust jacket. 1911. First Edition. Hardcover. Boards rubbed with stains. 8mm tear at head of spine. 10mm chip to cloth at corner of front board. Moderate foxing. Previous owner's pencil inscription on front endpaper dated 1911. ; xi, [1], 335, [1 (blank)] pages + frontispiece + 15 plate leaves. 28 illustrations. Blue cloth boards with gilt lettering on spine. Page dimensions: 226 x 144mm. Selected chapter titles: Aarhus and a Pig Farm; Copenhagen; The Credit-Union Banks; The State Small-Holdings; The Kolle-Kolle Farm; A Peasant's Farm at Helsingor; The Trifolium Dairy; Some Falster Island Farms; A Danish Elementary School. .
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Details
- Bookseller
- Renaissance Books
(NZ)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 21942
- Title
- Rural Denmark and Its Lessons
- Author
- Haggard, H. Rider
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good with no dust jacket
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Longmans, Green and Co.
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1911
Terms of Sale
Renaissance Books
Any book not as described may be returned within 14 days of receipt for a full refund.
About the Seller
Renaissance Books
Biblio member since 2005
Dunedin, New Zealand
About Renaissance Books
We are located in Dunedin, in the South Island of New Zealand. We have in stock over 8,500 books. We are a general antiquarian and out-of-print home-based bookseller, with some specialty areas in English literature, Maori, Travel, Tibet, and New Zealand history.
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