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Highways and Byways in the Lake District. With Illustrations by Joseph Pennell. [First Pocket Edition]. NEAR FINE COPY OF THE POCKET EDITION
by BRADLEY A.G
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Thakeham, West Sussex, United Kingdom
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About This Item
Macmillan,, 1924. 8vo., First Edition thus, with a frontispiece, numerous charming illustrations in the text and a large folding map coloured in outline; original series binding of green cloth, upper board and backstrip elaborately blocked and lettered in gilt and blind, a near fine copy. With the bookplate of the Selkirk Hill & Rock Club Library on front paste-down. Nice copy of the first pocket edition of this famous guide, first published in 1901. The early titles of the Pocket series are distinguished by their superior blocking and lettering. UNCOMMON IN THIS CONDITION.
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- Bookseller
- Island Books
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 24075
- Title
- Highways and Byways in the Lake District. With Illustrations by Joseph Pennell. [First Pocket Edition]. NEAR FINE COPY OF THE POCKET EDITION
- Author
- BRADLEY A.G
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Macmillan,
- Date Published
- 1924
- Keywords
- topography, cumberland, cumbs, cumbria, lake district, lakes, highways, byways, hb, a.g. bradley, topography, highways, byways, highways, byways, lake, district
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- Paste-down
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