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Atmospheric Railways - A Victorian Venture in Silent Speed
by Charles Hadfield
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Good
- ISBN 10
- 0715341073
- ISBN 13
- 9780715341070
- Seller
-
Gloucestershire, Gloucestershire, United Kingdom
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
Newton Abbot: David & Charles, 1967. Hardcover in dustwrapper.Blue cloth with gilt lettered spine, illustrated dustwrapper.240 pages, Illustrated with 24 plates and 15 text illustrations.5.6 X 8,25 inches. Very good book with prior owner's name and address to the front free endpaper in a good price clipped dustwrapper,which is faded on the spine and rubbed to the edges. The dustwrapper is in a clear removable protective jacket.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Good.
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- Bookseller
- Jacques Gander
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 009862
- Title
- Atmospheric Railways - A Victorian Venture in Silent Speed
- Author
- Charles Hadfield
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Good
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0715341073
- ISBN 13
- 9780715341070
- Publisher
- David & Charles
- Place of Publication
- Newton Abbot
- Date Published
- 1967
Terms of Sale
Jacques Gander
Books are returnable if found not to be as described, with prior notice.
About the Seller
Jacques Gander
Biblio member since 2004
Gloucestershire, Gloucestershire
About Jacques Gander
Out of print, rare and used books. Internet and mail order.
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- Price Clipped
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- Cloth
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- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- First Edition
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- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Dustwrapper
- Also known as book jacket, dust cover, or dust wrapper, a dust jacket is a protective and decorative cover for a book that is...
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