A History of Fireworks
by BROCK, ALAN ST. H
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- Hardcover
- Condition
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DUNEDIN, Auckland, New Zealand
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About This Item
George G. Harrop 1949 (?). Imperial octavo, purple cloth boards, gilt lettering to spine, frontispiece, 280pp, illus. VG- (moderate rubbing & bruising to boards, moderate foxing, soiling & fading to eps & page edges, both gutters slightly awry, adhesive tape residue to prelims & eps due, several articles, excepts, pictures stuck into eps, contains strip of photo negatives) in d/w, tatty (closed tears to spine, brusing, creasing, moderate foxing & dampstaining),
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- Hard To Find Books (NZ)
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- Title
- A History of Fireworks
- Author
- BROCK, ALAN ST. H
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- George G. Harrop 1949 (?)
- Keywords
- fireworks pyrotechnics history military entertainment pyrotechny chemistry manufacture accidents tradition traditions
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