Peeps at many Lands: Belgium
by Omond, George W.T. (illus Amedee Forestier)
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- Hardcover
- first
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Great Leighs, Essex, United Kingdom
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About This Item
Published by A. & C. Black, London, 1915, reprint. Black cloth board with yellow decoration. Gilt lettering to spine, orange lettering to front board, no dustwrapper. Illustration of King Albert pasted to front board. 7.75ins x 5.5ins, front endpapers decorated with heraldic shields, vii, (i), 87pp, 8pp book adverts plus 12pp colour plates. Sketch map of Belgium on pvii. Contents identical to first edition of 1909 but with different front cover. Previous owners signature to verso of frontis. Light foxing to some text pages. Overall G.
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- Title
- Peeps at many Lands: Belgium
- Author
- Omond, George W.T. (illus Amedee Forestier)
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
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- Reprint
- Any printing of a book which follows the original edition. By definition, a reprint is not a first edition.
- Gilt
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- Spine
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- G
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- Cloth
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- First Edition
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- Verso
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- Dustwrapper
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