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The intelligent traveller's guide to historic Britain: England, Wales, the Crown Dependencies
by Philip Axtell Crowl (1914-1991)
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0865530378
- ISBN 13
- 9780865530379
- Seller
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About This Item
xviii+814 with maps to paste-downs and end papers, appendix and index. Royal octavo (9 1/2" x 6 1/4") bound in original publisher's quarter red cloth with gilt lettering to spine over blue boards in original pictorial jacket. Fourth edition.
More than a thousand places are given historical context--and cross-referenced to a Gazetteer that locates each one and evaluates its attractiveness for the traveller.
Condition: Slightly cocked else a very good copy in like jacket.
More than a thousand places are given historical context--and cross-referenced to a Gazetteer that locates each one and evaluates its attractiveness for the traveller.
Condition: Slightly cocked else a very good copy in like jacket.
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- Bookseller
- The Book Collector ABAA, ILAB, TBA
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- H0108
- Title
- The intelligent traveller's guide to historic Britain: England, Wales, the Crown Dependencies
- Author
- Philip Axtell Crowl (1914-1991)
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0865530378
- ISBN 13
- 9780865530379
- Publisher
- Congdon and Weed, Inc
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1983
- Pages
- xviii+814 with maps to paste-downs and end papers, appendix and index.
- Size
- Royal octavo
- Bookseller catalogs
- History; Miscelaneous;
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