HARDBACK SHIPPED FROM THE UK* Edition: 1st. Thus.* Imp: 1st.* Date of Publication: 1975* Publisher: The Dovecote Press.* Binding and cover condition: Red brown cloth, gilt title to spine. Minimal bumps & rubs, absolutely minimal shelf wear to top and bottom edges and to head and tail of spine. VG+* Jacket condition: Black & white photo-illustrated dust wrapper on red-brown ground showing a Marshalls threshing machine. Black and white titles to spine and face. Not price clipped, showing a shelf price of £3.50. Slight shelf wear to top & bottom edges and to head & tail of spine. Now re-inforced and in a clear un-attached protective wrapper. VG* Contents condition: PRIVATE COPY NOT EX-LIBRARY. Printed end papers showing vintage advertisements. Crease to ffep. Clean, crisp, tight and bright with no reading wear, no marks to text, minimal age to top & fore edges, otherwise no visible faults. VG+.* Illustrations: Numerous b/w photos to nearly every page throughout.* Pages: Un-paginated.* Description: The photographs in this book tell Dorset's story from the outbreak of the Great War in 1914 to the coming of peace at the end of the second in 1945. They document one of the most exciting and remarkable periods of history, for not only does the book cover the eleven years of two world wars but also the years of peace. Years that brought the motorcar and tarmac, the charabanc and the tractor, the wireless, telephone, and mains electricity: all of them inventions that changed the face of Dorset and opened up its coombes and backwaters.* A NEAR VG++ copy of the 1st/1st thus with some minor faults, mostly to dust jacket, reducing it to VG.*

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Bookseller: Cocksparrow Books (GB)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 10414
Title: A Dorset Camera 1914-1945 (Copy 3).
Author: David Burnett
Format/Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Used - VG+/VG++/VG
Jacket Condition: Very Good
Quantity Available: 1
Edition: First Edition, 1st. Imp.
ISBN 10: 0950351814
ISBN 13: 9780950351810
Publisher: The Dovecote Press.
Place of Publication: Wimborne
Date Published: 1975
Keywords: PhotographS, County Guide.

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