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The Observer's Book of Architecture
by Penoyre, John and Michael Ryan
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good+ in Fair dust jacket
- ISBN 10
- 0723200556
- ISBN 13
- 9780723200550
- Seller
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Campbeltown, Argyll and Bute, United Kingdom
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
United Kingdom: Frederick Warne. Good+ in Fair dust jacket. 1958. Second Revised Edition; Fifth Printing. Hardcover. 0723200556 . Good 1970 2nd Edition fifth reprint hardcover in Fair dustjacket. Clean tan boards, bumped to spine ends and corners. Edges very lightly foxed. Internally, prior owner initials to front endpaper, title page and rear pastedown. Clean, bright pages. Clipped dustjacket bumped to extremities and chipped to spine ends, with some losses. Carefully packaged and despatched within 48 hours from our wee bookshop in Scotland. ; Observer's Pocket Series; Vol. 13; Color Illustrations; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 224 pages .
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Details
- Bookseller
- The Old Bookshelf
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 61227
- Title
- The Observer's Book of Architecture
- Author
- Penoyre, John and Michael Ryan
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good+ in Fair dust jacket
- Edition
- Second Revised Edition; Fifth Printing
- ISBN 10
- 0723200556
- ISBN 13
- 9780723200550
- Publisher
- Frederick Warne
- Place of Publication
- United Kingdom
- Date Published
- 1958
- Keywords
- 0723200556, Architecture, Observer's
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- Foxed
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- Spine
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- Title Page
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- Reprint
- Any printing of a book which follows the original edition. By definition, a reprint is not a first edition.
- 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...
- Fair
- is a worn book that has complete text pages (including those with maps or plates) but may lack endpapers, half-title, etc....
- Jacket
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- Good+
- A term used to denote a condition a slight grade better than Good.
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