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Queer Things About Sicily. With Numerous Illustrations from Photographs by Mrs. W. H. Goff, Crupi, Incorpora, Etc.
by SLADEN, Douglas: LORIMER, Norma:
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- Hardcover
- Condition
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- Seller
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Dorchester, Dorset, United Kingdom
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About This Item
London, Anthony Treherne & Co. Ltd. 1905. Hardback, approx 8 x 6 inches. Red cloth with decorative gilt lettering to spine and front. In very good condition. Some minor fading to spine. Some minor rubbing to cloth on corners and ends of spine. Bookplate to front endpaper “Berkeley Cole Wilmot Williams of Herringston.” Partial crack between front endpapers. Some minor light foxing to free side. Inside pages and plates all very clean, bright and tight throughout. Else a very clean and tight copy. 421pp. Illustrated with 30 full-page B&W photo plates.
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- Bookseller
- The Antique Map & Bookshop
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 85726
- Title
- Queer Things About Sicily. With Numerous Illustrations from Photographs by Mrs. W. H. Goff, Crupi, Incorpora, Etc.
- Author
- SLADEN, Douglas: LORIMER, Norma:
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- London, Anthony Treherne & Co. Ltd. 1905
- Keywords
- FOREIGN TRAVEL::Far East SLADEN, DOUGLAS: LORIMER, Norma: Queer Things About Japan & More Queer Things About Japan, With Seven Coloured Pages and End Papers and Thirty Full-Page Illustrations by the Celebrated Hokusai, never before reproduced in Eng
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Dorchester, Dorset
About The Antique Map & Bookshop
The Antique Map & Bookshop was established in 1976 and has been in Puddletown since 1978. PUDDLETOWN is situated just outside DORCHESTER in the county of DORSET, on the A35 to BOURNEMOUTH. The village has a by-pass now which means there is easy access to the village and ample space for parking. Our shop is directly on the main road through the village.
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- Cloth
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- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Gilt
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- Bookplate
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