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A Proud Heritage: The Story of the Railway Convalescent Homes
by Salmon, John L
- Used
- good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good/No Jacket
- Seller
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Kirkwall, Orkney, United Kingdom
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About This Item
London: The Railway Convalescent Homes, 1954. No dustwrapper, minor wear to spine ends of green boards, but otherwise a good clean tight copy, with gilt titles on spine and front board still bright, of this slim hard-cover book. Deals with the first fifty years of the Railway Convalescent Homes, which were intended for sick and injured railwaymen (and later women). There were ten Homes, the last of which (Dawlish in south Devon) closed in Spring 2020. 100pp, some b&w illustrations.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Good/No Jacket. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.
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- Bookseller
- JimsOldBooks
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 012722
- Title
- A Proud Heritage: The Story of the Railway Convalescent Homes
- Author
- Salmon, John L
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- The Railway Convalescent Homes
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1954
- Size
- 12mo - over 6¾" - 7&
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- Railway-Convalescent-homes
- Bookseller catalogs
- History; Transportation;
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About the Seller
JimsOldBooks
Biblio member since 2004
Kirkwall, Orkney
About JimsOldBooks
Based in Kirkwall, Orkney off the north coast of Scotland. No shop, internet sales only..
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- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Dustwrapper
- Also known as book jacket, dust cover, or dust wrapper, a dust jacket is a protective and decorative cover for a book that is...
- 12mo
- A duodecimo is a book approximately 7 by 4.5 inches in size, or similar in size to a contemporary mass market paperback. Also...
- 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...
- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- 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....
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
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