Alexander Graham Bell - The Man Who Contracted Space
by MacKenzie, Catherine Dunlop / Bruce, Robert V. - Foreword
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Near Fine/No Jacket as issued
- Seller
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Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States
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About This Item
Norwalk, Connecticut: The Easton Press, 1989. Book. Near Fine. Full-Leather. Hardover Illustrated Re-Issue. Octavo. xviii + 382 pp, frontis in color, Foreword, Preface, list of 30 illustrations, text in XXX Chapters, Index. 6.1" x 9.3" full leather boards, gilt design all around, gilt spine letters, gilt text block all around, raised spine bands, with laid in replica library catalogue cards and a publisher's note about Robert Bruce. fr fore-edge with minor scratch to gilt surface, elee Fine. .
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- Bookseller
- West Side Book Shop, ABAA
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 008565
- Title
- Alexander Graham Bell - The Man Who Contracted Space
- Author
- MacKenzie, Catherine Dunlop / Bruce, Robert V. - Foreword
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket as issued
- Edition
- Hardover Illustrated Re-Issue
- Publisher
- The Easton Press
- Place of Publication
- Norwalk, Connecticut
- Date Published
- 1989
- Size
- Octavo
- Keywords
- Telephone inventor -b. Edinburgh, Scotland, March 3, 1847 - d. August 2, 1922, Canada
- Bookseller catalogs
- BIOGRAPHY; SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY;
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