The English Year: A Personal Selection from Chambers' Book of Days
by Strong, Roy; Oman, Julia Trevelyan
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good ++/Very Good ++
- ISBN 10
- 0906671299
- ISBN 13
- 9780906671290
- Seller
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Lewisporte, Newfoundland, Canada
Item Price
£6.07£3.03
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About This Item
Exeter, England: Webb & Bower, 1982. Oversized hardcover with dust jacket, unpaginated, including "Over one thousand illustrations---portraits, engravings, paintings and commissioned photography---in colour and black and white,---"; overall very gently read, if at all, tight in binding,, very bright and clear gilt lettering on spine with a small vertical illustration, not a hint of shelf wear other than gentle bumps to spine ends, very clean and unmarked throughout; DJ gently bumped along edges, but no chips or tears, 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] For more on the Victorian age, see also our listing for Maud: The Diaries of Maud Berkeley [Illustrated Diary of a Victorian Woman].. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good ++/Very Good ++.
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- Bookseller
- Eric James
(CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 042092
- Title
- The English Year: A Personal Selection from Chambers' Book of Days
- Author
- Strong, Roy; Oman, Julia Trevelyan
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good ++
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good ++
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0906671299
- ISBN 13
- 9780906671290
- Publisher
- Webb & Bower
- Place of Publication
- Exeter, England
- Date Published
- 1982
- Keywords
- MONARCHY ENGLAND BRITISH ROYALTY HISTORY ROYAL FAMILY BIOGRAPHY PHOTOGRAPHY QUEEN VICTORIA KING EDWARD VII GEORGE V PRINCE OF WALES BIOGRAPHY REFERENCE DICTIONARIES BIBLE MISCELLANEA RELIGION GENERAL CHRISTIANITY MISCELLANEOUS ESSAYS PHILOSOPHICAL MUS
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