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Isles of Home: Seventy Years of Shetland
by Donaldson, Gordon
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0707307171
- ISBN 13
- 9780707307176
- Seller
-
edinburgh, United Kingdom
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About This Item
Edinburgh: Scottish Academic Press, 1994. First Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Hardback.A very good copy in publisher's dark green cloth with title in gilt on spine. No inscriptions. Map illustrated front endpapers. Many coloured and black and white photographs. 212 pages. Very good dustwrapper which is protected in a removable cover. The author states that in 1983 a book appeared with the title Isles of Home: Sixty years of Shetland. This volume is not a sequel to that one nor is it merely a second, amended edition, and might perhaps best be styled a revised version.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Blacket Books (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 17795
- Title
- Isles of Home: Seventy Years of Shetland
- Author
- Donaldson, Gordon
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0707307171
- ISBN 13
- 9780707307176
- Publisher
- Scottish Academic Press
- Place of Publication
- Edinburgh
- Date Published
- 1994
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Blacket Books
Biblio member since 2005
edinburgh
About Blacket Books
Blacket Books is the business name of Liz and Ian Laing, who have been selling second-hand and antiquarian books since 1985. We are general booksellers but with some emphasis on Scottish, military and childrens books, and modern first editions. We are members of the Provincial Booksellers Fairs Association (PBFA) and sell at book fairs throughout Scotland and the north of England. Our aim is to offer for sale worthwhile, collectable books at reasonable prices.
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