A West Country Anthology
by Burton, S.H
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- F/VG+/VG
- ISBN 10
- 0709148992
- ISBN 13
- 9780709148999
- Seller
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Salisbury, Wiltshire, United Kingdom
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About This Item
HARDBACK SHIPPED FROM THE UK* Edition: 1st. Thus.* Impression:1st.* Date of Publication: 1975* Publisher: Robert Hale.* Binding and cover condition: Orange cloth, Silver title to spine on olive green back strip. Slight bumps & rubbing to edges, VG+* Jacket condition: NOT PRICE CLIPPED, showing shelf price of £4.00 Coloured design to front, some slight top edge wear and creases. In protective plastic jacket. VG* Contents condition: PRIVATE COPY NOT EX-LIBRARY. No annotations or inscriptions. Clean, crisp, tight and bright with no reading wear, no marks to text, no visible faults. FINE.* Illustrations: B/w Photos within text throughout.* Pages: 220 pp. text. iv pp. Index at rear.* Description: The reader is taken on a westward journey from King Arthur's old frontier down to Land's End, the shape of the book moulded by this purposeful progress to 'Pedn an Laaz'. The reader is accompanied on his imaginary travels by men and women from many different centuries. Some of those who set him on his way he meets again as the miles lengthen. At each new stage an old friend or a new companion greets him.* A NEAR FINE copy with NO MAJOR FAULTS reduced to VG by slight shelf wear & slight creases to protected jacket.*
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- Bookseller
- Cocksparrow Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 3587
- Title
- A West Country Anthology
- Author
- Burton, S.H
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - F/VG+/VG
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0709148992
- ISBN 13
- 9780709148999
- Publisher
- Robert Hale Ltd
- Place of Publication
- London Uk 240
- Date Published
- 1975-03-20
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