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Clockwork Music
by Ord-Hume, Arthur W. J. G
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- F/VG++/VG
- ISBN 10
- 0047890045
- ISBN 13
- 9780047890048
- Seller
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Salisbury, Wiltshire, United Kingdom
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About This Item
HARDBACK "SEMINAL GUIDE," SHIPPED FROM THE UK* Edition: 1st. Thus. * Impression: 1st.* Date of Publication: 1973* Publisher: George Allen & Unwin Ltd.* Binding and cover condition: Dull green cloth, gilt title to spine. Minimal marks to top & bottom edges and to head of tail of spine, no other visible faults. VG++.* Jacket condition: Colour dust wrapper, dark green with white print of a barrel organ. Gilt and white titles to face, green to gilt spine. Price clipped, showing no shelf price. Slight shelf wear to top & bottom edges and to head & tail of spine. Short tears to front and rear lower edges now re-inforced and in a clear un-attached protective wrapper. VG.* Contents condition: PRIVATE COPY NOT EX-LIBRARY. Clean, crisp, tight and bright with no reading wear, no marks to text, minimal age to tope edges, otherwise no visible faults. VG++.* Illustrations: Copious b/w photos, prints and line drawings throughout. * Pages: 314 pp. text. xxiii pp. appendices, index and blank pages at rear.* Description: An Illustrated history of mechanical musical instruments from the musical box to the painola: from automation landy virginal players to the Orchestron. With a really large number of illustration taken from various sources including catalogues and guides. This seminal work of reference is ideal for the collector, the enthusiast and the repairer.* A NEAR FINE text copy of the 1st./ 1st. Reduced by dust jacket faults to VG. Now in clear protective wrapper.*
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- Bookseller
- Cocksparrow Books
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 5939
- Title
- Clockwork Music
- Author
- Ord-Hume, Arthur W. J. G
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - F/VG++/VG
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st. Edn, 1st. Imp.
- ISBN 10
- 0047890045
- ISBN 13
- 9780047890048
- Publisher
- George Allen & Unwin Ltd
- Place of Publication
- London UK. 334
- Date Published
- 1973-05-24
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