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The Motor Makers : The Turbulent History of Britain's Car Industry
by Adeney, Martin
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good (-)/Good
- ISBN 10
- 0002177870
- ISBN 13
- 9780002177870
- Seller
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Hyde, Cheshire, United Kingdom
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About This Item
HarperCollins Publishers Ltd (London), 1988. Ex library book with usual marks and stamps. Creasing to spine with rubbing around spine foot. A clean very tight copy with tape marks around spine foot boards, dusty page edges and no bumping to corners. Well handled dust jacket not price clipped or marked or torn with slight rubbing to upper edge. 377pp. A comprehensive history of the British car industry up to the late 1980s from its beginnings before the First World War.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Good (-)/Good. 8.75 x 5.75 inches.
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- Seller
- Godley Books
(GB)
- Seller's Inventory #
- 024066
- Title
- The Motor Makers : The Turbulent History of Britain's Car Industry
- Author
- Adeney, Martin
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good (-)
- Jacket Condition
- Good
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0002177870
- ISBN 13
- 9780002177870
- Publisher
- HarperCollins Publishers Ltd (London)
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1988
- Keywords
- Britain, Business, Manufacturing, Motoring, Cars, Marques, Engineering, History
- Bookseller catalogs
- Company and Union History; Transport - road; Business;
- Size
- 8.75 x 5.75 inches
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Godley Books
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Hyde, Cheshire
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- 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...
- 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...
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
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