WEST COUNTRY (Discover Britain's Historic Houses)
by Jenkins, Simon
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- F/F AS NEW
- ISBN 10
- 0276440676
- ISBN 13
- 9780276440670
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Salisbury, Wiltshire, United Kingdom
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About This Item
HARDBACK "FINE AS NEW," SHIPPED FROM THE UK* Edition: 2nd. Thus. Rep/Revised.* Imp: 1st.* Date of Publication: 2008 (2005)* Publisher: Reader?s Digest.* Binding and cover condition: Laminated photo-illustrated boards, black and white title to spine and white to face. No bumps or rubs, no visible faults. FINE.* Jacket condition: No dust wrapper, as issued. FINE* Contents condition: PRIVATE COPY NOT EX-LIBRARY. Clean, crisp, tight and bright with no reading wear, no marks to text, no visible faults. FINE.* Illustrations: Mostly colour & a few b/w photos, throughout.* Pages: 185 pp. text. viii pp. Glossary, contact details, index & credits at rear.* Description: Britain has more historic houses, great and small, that are open to the public than anywhere else in the world. Stately homes, ruined castles and abbeys, merchants? mansions, peasant cottages ? the stories of such buildings and their occupants, past and present, add up to an extraordinary record of our history. Author Simon Jenkins is a leading writer on this rich heritage. Here we present his vision of the West Country?s 97 most impressive, interesting or unusual dwellings - from the elegant Montacute in Somerset and medieval Buckland Abbey in Devon to Cornwall?s much-visited Lanhydrock and the tiny Fisherman?s Cottage in Clovelly ? enhanced with photographs selected by the editors of Reader?s Digest..* A FINE, AS NEW copy of the 2nd.revised edition with NO VISIBLE FAULTS. No dust jacket (as issued).*
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- Bookseller
- Cocksparrow Books (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 3586
- Title
- WEST COUNTRY (Discover Britain's Historic Houses)
- Author
- Jenkins, Simon
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- New F/F AS NEW
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Revised reprint 2008
- ISBN 10
- 0276440676
- ISBN 13
- 9780276440670
- Publisher
- Reader's Digest
- Place of Publication
- London Uk 193
- Date Published
- 2008-01-01
- Size
- 27.8 x 21 x 1.8 cm
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