Scotland
by Moncrieff, A R Hope
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good/Good Plus
- Seller
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Ashmore, Queensland, Australia
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
London: Adam & Charles Black, 1945. ix, 260 pages, 31 colour plates. Blacked out square by the upper corner of the front flyleaf. Eight-line Christmas greeting dated 1947 on the front flyleaf. Page edges lightly toned, lightly foxed prelims and endpages. Cloth boards in price-clipped dust-jacket which has lost a section from the spine head, including part of the title and author's name. The author writes of the salient features of the mainland, with glimpses at its history, national character and customs, and at the literature that illustrates Scotland to the English-speaking world. In the series Black's Colour Books.. Tenth Impression. Hard Cover. Very Good/Good Plus. Illus. by Sutton Palmer and G F Nicholls. 8vo.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Lawrence Jones
(AU)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 025026
- Title
- Scotland
- Author
- Moncrieff, A R Hope
- Illustrator
- Sutton Palmer and G F Nicholls
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Good Plus
- Edition
- Tenth Impression
- Publisher
- Adam & Charles Black
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1945
- Keywords
- Scotland travel and Description Border Country Edinburgh Trossachs Fife Grampians Aberdeen Caledonian Canal Glasgow Clyde
- Bookseller catalogs
- Travel & Exploration;
Terms of Sale
Lawrence Jones
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About the Seller
Lawrence Jones
Biblio member since 2006
Ashmore, Queensland
About Lawrence Jones
I carry a general stock of approx 70000 titles of which only a small percentage is online. Viewing at my Ashmore bookrooms is welcome by appointment. While not specializing I have a good selection of art, natural history, military and surfing in stock. I also have many other non-fiction subjects, as well as approx 10000 paperback fiction titles on hand.
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- Foxed
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