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Touch Wood!
by Hamilton, Duncan & Scott, Lionel
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Whitley Bay, Tyne and Wear, United Kingdom
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About This Item
London; Barrie & Rockliff, 1960., 1960. Hard Cover. FIRST EDITION. Octavo, pp ix, [1], 229. 27 monochrome photographic illustrations to plates. Publisher's red cloth with white titles to spine in unclipped pictorial dust-jacket; photographic endpapers. Previous owner's name written neatly to half title; light foxing to page block edges and prelims. Jacket shows small areas of loss to spine tips with a 2.5cm (approx.) closed tear to spine head. Very Good book in like jacket. With the ownership signature of 1960s British racing driver Julian Sutton to half title. Autobiography by the Irish born motor-racing "gentleman driver" and his many narrow escapes, with an Introduction by The Rt. Hon. The Earl Howe.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Keel Row Books
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 11048
- Title
- Touch Wood!
- Author
- Hamilton, Duncan & Scott, Lionel
- Format/Binding
- Hard Cover
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- London; Barrie & Rockliff, 1960.
- Date Published
- 1960
- Keywords
- Sport
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About the Seller
Keel Row Books
Biblio member since 2019
Whitley Bay, Tyne and Wear
About Keel Row Books
Keel Row Books is Tyneside's leading bookshop for collectable, antiquarian and second-hand books.Formerly of North Shields we are now in newly renovated double-fronted shop in the middle of Whitley Bay. Open Mon to Sat 10-5.
Established 1980. Members: ILAB/ABA/PBFA
Established 1980. Members: ILAB/ABA/PBFA
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- Spine
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