Present from....: Holiday Souvenirs of the British Isles
by Larch S. Garrad
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good
- Seller
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ELY, Cambridgeshire, United Kingdom
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About This Item
Newton Abbot, Devon: David & Charles. Very Good/Very Good. 1976. First Edition. Hard Cover. 8vo Dust jacket unclipped. Black cloth boards with bright gilt titling on spine. No ownership marks. 160 pages clean and tight.Holiday resorts have long offered a wealth of souvenirs for visitors to buy and take home: vases and ashtrays, mugs and paperweights, jewellery of local stone, keepsakes of pottery, porcelain, glass, marble, leather, wood or horn - some attractive, some ugly, all now offering splendid opportunities for inexpensive collecting. Many people treasure Granny's `Present from Margate' (even if it does say `Made in Birmingham' on the base), and we nearly all own souvenirs of some kind. Here are the details of what to look for if you wish to form a collection, with information on the items that have been issued at one time or another, where they were made and sold, how common or unusual they may be .
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Details
- Bookseller
- CHARLES BOSSOM (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 139916
- Title
- Present from....: Holiday Souvenirs of the British Isles
- Author
- Larch S. Garrad
- Format/Binding
- Hard Cover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good/Very Good
- Edition
- First Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- David & Charles
- Place of Publication
- Newton Abbot, Devon
- Date Published
- 1976
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
CHARLES BOSSOM
Biblio member since 2010
ELY, Cambridgeshire
About CHARLES BOSSOM
Charles Bossom has worked in the Book Trade since 1963, commencing at WH Smith Oxford and retiring in 1999 as Regional Manager Central England. The Charles Bossom bookselling business was started in early 2000. We offer a changing selection of old and out-of-print books in a wide range of subjects. We frequently add new items to our stock so visit us regularly.
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- 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....
- 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...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...