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The English World: History, Character, and People
by Edited by Robert Blake
- Used
- Fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fine/Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0810908654
- ISBN 13
- 9780810908659
- Seller
-
Lewisporte, Newfoundland, Canada
Item Price
£6.88£3.44
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
New York: Harry N. Abrams Harrison House, 1982. Oversized hardcover with dust jacket, 268 pages including "306 illustrations, including 85 plates in full color, drawings and maps"; gorgeous book in dark maroon cloth with an elegant, brilliant embossed gilt rose on front cover and equally very bright and clear gilt lettering on spine, not a hint of shelf wear, tight in binding, overall very gently read, if at all, very clean and unmarked throughout; bright red DJ has no flaws visible to my tired old eyes, front and back cover pictorials very bright and colourful, now in new mylar/paper protector. [this copy priced low, priced to go to a good home as bookseller is nearing retirement, but extra S & H at cost will be requested] See also our listing for The English Year: A Personal Selection from Chambers' Book of Days.. First American Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Eric James
(CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 042093
- Title
- The English World: History, Character, and People
- Author
- Edited by Robert Blake
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Fine
- Edition
- First American Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0810908654
- ISBN 13
- 9780810908659
- Publisher
- Harry N. Abrams Harrison House
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1982
- Keywords
- JUDAICA MIDDLE EAST HISTORY JEWS CHRISTIANS CHRISTIANITY BIBLE STUDIES
- Bookseller catalogs
- History; Culture; Religion;
Terms of Sale
Eric James
Payment through Biblio, or directly we accept PayPal, money order or cheque (10 days for clearance within Canada before shipment). Shipping by Canada Post. Shipment within 48 hours of receipt of payment.
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- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Shelf Wear
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- Jacket
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- Cloth
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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....
- Gilt
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