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MACADAM: The McAdam Family and the Turnpike Roads, 1798-1861
by W.J.READER
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine/Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0434625027
- ISBN 13
- 9780434625024
- Seller
-
Brighton, East Sussex, United Kingdom
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About This Item
LONDON : HEINEMANN , 1980 Red cloth boards with blue blocked title slip and gilt titles, 225 x 145 mm approx. xii + 242 pp. Portrait frontis + 32 other b/w illustrations on 18 pp of glossy plates and 3 maps all as called for. Unspecified Chapter head line vignettes. First Edition 1980. Please see our images of the actual book offered for sale for further details and condition. Near Fine/ VG (Book- negligible shelf wear/soiling. No previous owner name or insc. Dust Jacket - mild rubbing, exposed top edges of flap folds dust spotted, nick top front, non price clipped - cover £8.95. No other notable defects to book or jacket).
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- Bookseller
- booksonlinebrighton
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 130511
- Title
- MACADAM: The McAdam Family and the Turnpike Roads, 1798-1861
- Author
- W.J.READER
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0434625027
- ISBN 13
- 9780434625024
- Publisher
- HEINEMANN
- Place of Publication
- LONDON
- Date Published
- 1980
- Keywords
- Macadam, W J Reader, Turnpike Roads, J L McAdam, Sir James McAdam, Metaled Roads, Highways, Coaching Days, The Motor Car,
Terms of Sale
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- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- First Edition
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- Gilt
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- Jacket
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- Cloth
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- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
- Price Clipped
- When a book is described as price-clipped, it indicates that the portion of the dust jacket flap that has the publisher's...
- VG
- Very Good condition can describe a used book that does show some small signs of wear - but no tears - on either binding or...
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