Arthur C. Clarke's Mysterious World
by Welfare, Simon Fairley, John
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- VG+/F/VG
- ISBN 10
- 0002165368
- ISBN 13
- 9780002165365
- Seller
-
Salisbury, Wiltshire, United Kingdom
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About This Item
HARDBACK SHIPPED FROM THE UK* Edition: 1st. Thus. Reprint* Date of Publication: 1980* Publisher: William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd.* Binding and cover condition: Black cloth, Gilt title to spine. No bumps or rubs, minimal shelf wear to head & tail of spine. FINE* Jacket condition: colour photo-cover NOT PRICE CLIPPED. Slight shelf wear to top & bottom edge and to head & tail of spine. VG* Contents condition: PRIVATE COPY NOT EX-LIBRARY. Crisp, tight and bright with no annotations or inscriptions, no reading wear, no marks to text. FINE.* Illustrations: Colour & b/w photos, prints and line drawings throughout.* Pages: 213 pp. text. iv pp. Acknowledgements & Index at rear.* Description: Mysterious ape-men, Fortean showers of frogs, ancient electricity, monsters of the deep, megaliths & standing stones, Loch Ness-type monsters, the Nazca lines, crypotzoology, the great Siberian explosion, UFOs, giants etc. Clarke has a voracious appetite for the weird.* A NEAR FINE copy with some slight shelf wear to jacket reducing it to VG*
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- Bookseller
- Cocksparrow Books
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 4776
- Title
- Arthur C. Clarke's Mysterious World
- Author
- Welfare, Simon Fairley, John
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - VG+/F/VG
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Thus Reprint,
- ISBN 10
- 0002165368
- ISBN 13
- 9780002165365
- Publisher
- Collins
- Place of Publication
- London Uk 216
- This edition first published
- 1980
- Size
- 25.8 x 19.6 x 2.6 cm
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- Fine
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- Gilt
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- Cloth
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- Shelf Wear
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