Early Middle English Texts
by Dickins, Bruce & R. M. Wilson
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good+ in Very Good- dust jacket
- ISBN 10
- 0370001486
- ISBN 13
- 9780370001487
- Seller
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Dunedin, New Zealand, New Zealand
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About This Item
London: Bowes & Bowes. Very Good+ in Very Good- dust jacket. (1969). Hardcover. 0370001486 . No signatures. Some dampstains to dust-jacket spine. Dust-jacket protected in archival mylar cover.; 1969 reprint of a title first published in 1951. xvi, 335, [1 (blank)] pages + frontispiece + 2 plates. Red cloth boards with gilt lettering on spine. Page dimensions: 217 x 137mm. With glossary at rear. "Thirty-eight pieces are included, and the editors have dispensed with the old and deadening grouping according to dialect. They have set out the selections according to subject, with a rough chronological arrangement within each part." - from Times Literary Supplement review, quoted on front flap of dust-jacket. .
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Details
- Bookseller
- Renaissance Books (NZ)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 23888
- Title
- Early Middle English Texts
- Author
- Dickins, Bruce & R. M. Wilson
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good+ in Very Good- dust jacket
- ISBN 10
- 0370001486
- ISBN 13
- 9780370001487
- Publisher
- Bowes & Bowes
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- (1969)
- Keywords
- 0370001486
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Renaissance Books
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Dunedin, New Zealand
About Renaissance Books
We are located in Dunedin, in the South Island of New Zealand. We have in stock over 8,500 books. We are a general antiquarian and out-of-print home-based bookseller, with some specialty areas in English literature, Maori, Travel, Tibet, and New Zealand history.
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