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Secret Britain
by Association, Automobile
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- F/VG+
- ISBN 10
- 0861453921
- ISBN 13
- 9780861453924
- Seller
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Salisbury, Wiltshire, United Kingdom
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About This Item
1986 HARDBACK * Edition: Reprint * Date of Publication: 1992* Publisher: the Automobile Association* Binding and cover condition: Colour photo plastic laminated cover Fine * Jacket condition: NOT PRICE CLIPPED some minor shelf wear to tope edge and corners, VG+* Contents condition: Coloured ep?s PRIVATE COPY NOT EX-LIBRARY clean, crisp, tight and bright. No visible faults, Fine* Illustrations: B/W & Coloured Photos, drawings and maps.* Pages: 313 pp. text. vii pp. Index. Over 1500 places to visit. 242 special subject feature panels. 6 big colour features exploring Britain from an off-beat angle, by acknowledged experts. 7 large-scale, old style regional maps PLUS London street map. Double Index for easy reference to places and subjects. Absolute MUST for the traveller who wants to see the unexpected and the unusual.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Cocksparrow Books
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 5271
- Title
- Secret Britain
- Author
- Association, Automobile
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - F/VG+
- Quantity Available
- 1
- ISBN 10
- 0861453921
- ISBN 13
- 9780861453924
- Publisher
- Automobile Association
- Place of Publication
- Basingstoke, Hampshire 320
- Date Published
- 1986-08-16
- Keywords
- Curiosities and wonders -- Great Britain --, Guidebooks, Occultism -- Great Britain -- Guidebooks
- Size
- 31 cm.
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About the Seller
Cocksparrow Books
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Salisbury, Wiltshire
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Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Reprint
- Any printing of a book which follows the original edition. By definition, a reprint is not a first edition.
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Fine
- A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- 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...
- Crisp
- A term often used to indicate a book's new-like condition. Indicates that the hinges are not loosened. A book described as crisp...
- Shelf Wear
- Shelf wear (shelfwear) describes damage caused over time to a book by placing and removing a book from a shelf. This damage is...
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