Hadrian's Wall by James Forde-Johnston - 1977

Penguin Books, Limited. Used - Very Good. Used book that is in excellent condition. May show signs of wear or have minor defects.

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London: BCA. Very Good/Very Good. 1978. Reprint. Hard Cover. Sm 4to 0718116526 Reprint replublished by BCA, London. Dust jacket complete. Green cloth boards with bright gilt titling on spine. Previous owner's book plate on f. paste down. Colour & b/w photographs, illustrations, maps. 205 pages clean and tight. In 122 A.D. the Roman Emperor Hadrian visited the northernmost corner of the Roman Empire - Britain. The object of his visit was the reorganisation of the frontier's defence system and the result was what we call today Hadrian's Wall - the most extraordinary ancient monument in Britain. Seventy-three miles long, from Wallsend-on-Tyne in the east to Bowness-on-Solway in the west, the Wall was a system of defence in depth, not just an eight foot thick and twelve foot high curtain. This system included a large ditch, the Wall itself, a series of 16 forts each housing 500 to 800 men, 80 small forts called milecastles and 158 towers. The Wall was built to prevent… Read More

London: Book Club Associates. 1977. Small Quarto Size [approx 17.5cm x 24cm]. Very Good condition in Very Good Dustjacket. DJ protected in our purpose-made clear archival plastic sleeve. Illustrated with Colour and Black & White Photographs. Black and white diagrams. 205 pages. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. . Book Club. Hardback.

Michael Joseph & The Connoisseur, 1978. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. hardback, medium quarto, a very good tightly bound copy in a part faded pictorial dust wrapper that is creased to the bottom of the rear panel, the text is clean and unmarked, illustrated, 205pp.

Book Club Associates 1977. Imperial Octavo hardcover (VG) in d/w (VG); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage cost.

Book Club Associates, 1977. Hardback. Very Good/Very Good. First BCA edition hardback, 1977, with unclipped jacket. In overall very good condition with only slight signs of handling and storage. Internally very clean. Binding tight and appears little read, no annotations or inscriptions; text, plates and illustrations clean and clear throughout. From a private collection, not an old library book.

London: Book Club Associates, 1977. 1st edition (Book Club Original), 4to, 205pp, cold and b/w photo illustrations, line drawings, plans, page edges browned, o/w VG Copy in lightly worn and browned DJ. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Good. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.