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Fenland River: Story of the Great Ouse and Its Tributaries (Landmark River S.)
by Tibbs, Rodney
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- VG+/F/F
- ISBN 10
- 0900963107
- ISBN 13
- 9780900963100
- Seller
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Salisbury, Wiltshire, United Kingdom
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About This Item
Terence Dalton, 1969-03-01. 1st Edn, 1st. Imp.. Hardcover. VG+/F/F. Box X29 HARDBACK ""UNCOMMON,"" SHIPPED FROM THE UK* Edition: 1st.* Impression: 1st.* Date: 1969.* Pub: Terence Dalton Ltd.* Binding and cover condition: Mid-blue cloth covered boards with small gilt title to spine strip and none to face. No bumps, minor rubs at tail of spine, no other visible faults. VG++* Jacket condition: Colour photo illustrated dust wrapper showing a boat moored on the great Ouse. Some age to inside face of jacket. Not Price clipped showing a shelf price of 30/-. VG++.* Contents condition: PRIVATE COPY NOT EX-LIBRARY. Printed & coloured map to end papers. Clean, crisp, tight and bright with no reading wear, no marks to text, no tanning or other visible faults. Some age and spotting to edges. VG+* Illustrations: Numerous b/w photos and l/drawings with green highlights.* Pages: 120 pp. text. ix pp. appendices, index & blank pages at rear.* Description: The Great Ouse river rises in Northamptonshire, skirts a mile or so of the Oxfordshire border before beginning it's journey through Buckinghamshire, Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, Cambridgeshire, the Isle of Ely and Norfolk to the Wash. It flows through towns such as Bedford, Huntingdon, Ely and Kings Lynn. Whilst the river as a whole covers such a wide area it is as a Fenland river with extensive drainage and water conservation systems that the Great Ouse is usually considered.* A NEAR FINE copy of the 1st./1st. with some age darkening to page edges and to the interior of an otherwise fine dust jacket.* 0
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- Bookseller
- Cocksparrow Books
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 9189
- Title
- Fenland River: Story of the Great Ouse and Its Tributaries (Landmark River S.)
- Author
- Tibbs, Rodney
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - VG+/F/F
- Edition
- 1st Edn, 1st. Imp.
- ISBN 10
- 0900963107
- ISBN 13
- 9780900963100
- Publisher
- Terence Dalton
- Place of Publication
- Lavenham
- Date Published
- 1969-03-01
- Pages
- 128
- X weight
- g
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