London: Bracken Books, 1983. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. Green spine cloth with gilt lettering and dark yellow boards.White Endpapers; fixed front endpaper has a small soiled area; book edges are very lightly soiled mostly with age; book interior is clean, tight and bright; back free endpaper and last page of index have some light wrinkling from mis-handling; black-and-white frontispiece; 60 pages of half-tone plates; 32 pages of engravings and 117 illustrations in the text; Preface by Sir Mortimer Wheeler; 8vo; 448 pages; dustjacket is protected by a mylar wrapper and is clean and bright; front panel of dustjacket has some minor ribbing on right fold and upper right corner is rubbed; top edge of front panel has a small chip near spine and lower edge has a very tiny closed tear; spine panel of dustjacket is rubbed at each end but upper edge has some minor chipping and light creasing; rear dustjacket panel is rubbed at top and bottom edges with two small closed tears at each end of top edge; inside front flap of dustjacket has a vertical crease

3.07#; P3; A; MS32.50; ACQ11/95; OD020916; C-14; 10/30/262;

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Bookseller: Charing Cross Road Booksellers (US)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 20050386
Title: The English Mediaeval House
Author: Wood, Margaret
Format/Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Used - Fine
Jacket Condition: Very Good
Quantity Available: 1
Edition: First Edition, First Printing
ISBN 10: 0946495025
ISBN 13: 9780946495023
Publisher: Bracken Books
Place of Publication: London
Date Published: 1983

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