Bound Collection of British Railway Pamphlet Booklets The Modern Art of Taming Wild Horses by J S Rarey (The Horse Trainer) the Autobiography of a Gossamer Spider; His Adventures, Reflections, & C, Forming a Key to the Habits and Economy of the Whole Spider Tribe by Michael Westcott with an Introduction
by Murray's Railway Reading
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E-157. Very Good. Leather. Leather. 12mo. Published by G. Routledge and Co. , London, 1858. 63 pgs; Published by Groombridge and Sons, London, UK. 1857. 48 pgs. Original wrappers present. Publisher by Bradbury & Evans, London, UK. 1858. 114 pgs. Original wrappers present. Published by John Murray London, 1852. Iv, 112 pgs. Published by Blackwood, Edinburgh, UK. No Date (1860). 92 pgs. Bound in 3/4 leather with marble paper covered boards with titles present to the spine. Boards have shelf-wear present to the extremities (spine label is chipped and worn, board edges is chipped and worn). Previous owner's name present to the front pastedown and the previous owner's has written the titles down on the endpapers. Foxing present. Text is clean and free of marks. Binding tight and solid. A collection of British railway Pamphlet Booklets: The Modern Art of Taming Wild Horses; The Autobiography of a Gossamer Spider; The Poor Traveller : Boots At The Holly-tree Inn And Mrs. Gamp; Music, and the Art of Dress; Tales from "Blackwood." Volume X. E-157; 8vo 8" - 9" tall .
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- Bound Collection of British Railway Pamphlet Booklets The Modern Art of Taming Wild Horses by J S Rarey (The Horse Trainer) the Autobiography of a Gossamer Spider; His Adventures, Reflections, & C, Forming a Key to the Habits and Economy of the Whole Spider Tribe by Michael Westcott with an Introduction
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- Murray's Railway Reading
- Format/Binding
- Leather
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Place of Publication
- E-157
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