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Althorp, The Story of An English House
by Spencer, Charles
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine Condition/Very Good
- Seller
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Yungaburra, Queensland, Australia
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About This Item
London : Viking, 1998. First Edition. Hardcover (Original Cloth). Near Fine Condition/Very Good. Quarto. Numerous colour photos and some black and white photos. The Great House at Althorp in Northamptonshire has been home to the Spencer family for nearly 500 years and Earl Spencer has written a fascinating account of the house, its art and the architecture and recent changes. Size: Quarto. 167 pages. Text body is clean, and free from previous owner annotation, underlining and highlighting. Binding is tight, covers and spine fully intact, but spine is slightly cocked. No foxing in this copy. Dust jacket has some rubbed marks.. Dust Jacket un-clipped. All edges clean, neat and free of foxing. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilogram. Category: Architecture; Architecture of Great Britain; ISBN: 0670883220. ISBN/EAN: 9780670883226. Main Picture: Front cover. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 52085. Binding is tight, covers and spine fully intact, but spine is slightly cocked Text body is clean, and free from previous owner annotation, underlining and highlighting No foxing in this copy All edges clean, neat and free of foxing
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Details
- Bookseller
- Spencer and Murphy Booksellers
(AU)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 52085
- Title
- Althorp, The Story of An English House
- Author
- Spencer, Charles
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover (Original Cloth)
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine Condition
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Viking
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1998
- Pages
- 167
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- Architecture of Great Britain BZDB397 Althorp, great houses, England, Spencer Architecture; Architecture of Great Britain; Althorp The Story of An English House
- Size
- Quarto
Terms of Sale
Spencer and Murphy Booksellers
30 day return guarantee, with full refund including original shipping costs for up to 30 days after delivery if an item arrives misdescribed or damaged.
About the Seller
Spencer and Murphy Booksellers
Biblio member since 2020
Yungaburra, Queensland
About Spencer and Murphy Booksellers
Books sourced from all over the world adorn our shelves. We carry a general range of books, some 18,000, including fiction and non-fiction in all genres. We stock collectibles, rare and antiquarian and many out-of-print books. Lonely Planet described Spencer & Murphy Booksellers as "the best bookshop in the North" and we are known as a treasure trove of books and often as Aladdin's Cave of Books.
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- First Edition
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- Cocked
- Refers to a state where the spine of a book is lightly "twisted" in such a way that the front and rear boards of a book do not...
- Edges
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- Jacket
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- Quarto
- The term quarto is used to describe a page or book size. A printed sheet is made with four pages of text on each side, and the...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- 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....
- Fine
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