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Extracts from Octavia Hill's "Letters to Fellow-Workers" 1864 to 1911: Letters on Housing
by Hill, Octavia; Ouvry, Elinor Southwood (Compiled by)
- Used
- Good
- first
- Condition
- Good
- Seller
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Bath, Somerset, United Kingdom
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About This Item
London: The Adelphi Book Shop, 1933. First Edition Thus . Printed Card Wrappers. Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Compiled by Octavia Hill's niece, Elinor Southwood Ouvry, with a foreward by Neville Chamberlain. Reddish-brown printed card wrappers in good condition with sunning to spine and edges, fraying to edges and minor wear to spine tips. 64 pp; tissue-guarded portrait frontis. Contents clean except for owner's name in ballpoint pen to ffep and spotting to endpapers and page edges. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. All orders professionally packed, tracked and/or signed-for, and insured.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Bath and West Books (PBFA)
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 003938
- Title
- Extracts from Octavia Hill's "Letters to Fellow-Workers" 1864 to 1911: Letters on Housing
- Author
- Hill, Octavia; Ouvry, Elinor Southwood (Compiled by)
- Format/Binding
- Printed Card Wrappers
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition Thus
- Publisher
- The Adelphi Book Shop
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1933
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾" - 9&f
- Keywords
- Government & Politics; History; Essays, Letters & Diaries; Poor Law; Nineteenth Century History; Twentieth Century History; Working Class History; Social History
Terms of Sale
Bath and West Books (PBFA)
Book orders are professionally packed and shipped within 48 hours.
Returns accepted within 14 days of delivery but please contact us in first instance.
About the Seller
Bath and West Books (PBFA)
Biblio member since 2009
Bath, Somerset
About Bath and West Books (PBFA)
Bath and West Books is an online/mail order business owned by Jo West and based just outside the city of Bath. I have been dealing in antiquarian and secondhand books since 2003 and I buy and sell books on a wide variety of subjects with particular interests in Literature and Poetry, The Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, Modern Firsts, History, Politics, Children's and Illustrated Books, Travel, Art, Fine Bindings, Literary Sets, the Folio Society and anything unusual and interesting. Please visit www.BathandWestBooks.co.uk for further information. You can also follow us at Twitter.com/BathWestBooks.
Glossary
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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....
- FFEP
- A common abbreviation for Front Free End Paper. Generally, it is the first page of a book and is part of a single sheet that...
- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- 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...
- Wrappers
- The paper covering on the outside of a paperback. Also see the entry for pictorial wraps, color illustrated coverings for...
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