Cambridge. As it was and as it is today.
by STEEGMANN, JOHN:
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- Hardcover
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Dorchester, Dorset, United Kingdom
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About This Item
B.T.Batsford LTD. 1949 4th revised.. 8.75 x 5.5 inches. In light brown cloth covers with gilt to spine. With illustrated dustwrapper. Maps to endpapers. In very good condition with very good dustwrapper. (d/w. Spine slightly darkend and rubbed at ends and edges. Corners slightly rubbed. Price clipped. With protective plastic wrap). Spine slightly faded. Neat inscription to first blank page, dated 1953. Else a clean and tight copy. 120 pp. With b/w photographs and colour illustrations. In two parts. The first deals with the history of the University, the second with the University as it was at time of writing and a concluding section looks to the future.
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- Bookseller
- The Antique Map & Bookshop (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 94424
- Title
- Cambridge. As it was and as it is today.
- Author
- STEEGMANN, JOHN:
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- B.T.Batsford LTD. 1949 4th revised.
- Keywords
- ENGLISH TOPOGRAPHY Dustwrapper Illustrated Books History Social History
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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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- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
- Spine
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- Price Clipped
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- Cloth
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- 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...
- 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...