Learning the Ropes. An Apprentice in the Last of the Windjammers
by NEWBY, Eric
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- Hardcover
- Condition
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- Seller
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Lewes, East Sussex, United Kingdom
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About This Item
London: John Murray, 1999.. First edition. Large oblong 8vo. 144 pp. Publisher's brown cloth, bronze lettering to the spine, dust jacket, signed by Newby on the half title. Black and white photographic illustrations throughout. Very good.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Bow Windows Bookshop (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 45902
- Title
- Learning the Ropes. An Apprentice in the Last of the Windjammers
- Author
- NEWBY, Eric
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- London: John Murray
- Date Published
- 1999.
- Keywords
- Travel
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Bow Windows Bookshop
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About the Seller
Bow Windows Bookshop
Biblio member since 2006
Lewes, East Sussex
About Bow Windows Bookshop
Bow Windows Bookshop has a large general stock of old and fine books and maps. Owned in partnership by Ric Latham and Jonathan Menezes, we buy and sell all manner of titles from early leatherbound volumes to modern first editions. We exhibit at bookfairs in the UK and North America and issue regular printed catalogues. Located in the beautiful county town of Lewes in the south-east of England, we are open six days a week. All our books are described as accurately as possible and we abide by the Code of Good Practice of the Antiquarian Booksellers Association
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