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THE ACORN AND THE OAK: AN HISTORICAL EXPLORATION INTO THE FIRST 150 YEARS OF BURNETT SWAYNE.
by Kemish, Norman
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- VG++/VG/VG++
- ISBN 10
- 0952857901
- ISBN 13
- 9780952857907
- Seller
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About This Item
HARDBACK "UNCOMMON," SHIPPED FROM THE UK* Edition: 1st.* Impression: 1st.* Date: 1996.* Pub: Burnett Swayne.* Binding and cover condition: Dark maroon cloth covered boards with gilt title to spine only. Minor corner bumps, no rubs, very light marking. VG* Jacket condition: Colour illustrated dust wrapper, showing an oak tree with a portrait of J.J.Burnett. Not Price clipped but showing no shelf price. VG++* Contents condition: PRIVATE COPY NOT EX-LIBRARY. Presentation book plate from one of the partners celebrating the 150th. Anniversary to front free end paper. Clean, crisp, tight and bright with no reading wear, no marks to text, no tanning or other visible faults. Very slight marks to top edge. VG++* Illustrations: A number of b/w photos & facsimiles within text.* Pages: 137 pp. text. viii pp. appendices, illustrated family tree index & blank pages at rear.* Description: An historical exploration into the first 150 years of Burnett Swayne, Chartered Accountants, of Southampton. This is a history book but, unlike many history books it contains a most definite biographical element. It could be described as an historical family biography for it delves into the history of a family business which began 150 years ago. Indeed in order fully to capture the true essence of the family's origins, it goes back even further than that.* A NEAR FINE copy with only minor faults reducing it to VG.*
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- Bookseller
- Cocksparrow Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 9126
- Title
- THE ACORN AND THE OAK: AN HISTORICAL EXPLORATION INTO THE FIRST 150 YEARS OF BURNETT SWAYNE.
- Author
- Kemish, Norman
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - VG++/VG/VG++
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edn, 1st. Imp.
- ISBN 10
- 0952857901
- ISBN 13
- 9780952857907
- Publisher
- Burnett Swayne
- Place of Publication
- Southampton UK 145
- Date Published
- 1996-01-01
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