HARDBACK "RARELY AVAILABLE," SHIPPED FROM THE UK* Edition: 1st. Thus.* Imp: 1st.* Date of Publication: 1988* Publisher: Gollancz.* Binding and cover condition: Deep mauve cloth, gilt title to spine. Slight dents to top edge, no rubs, no other visible faults. VG+* Jacket condition: Colour illustrated paper dust wrapper. NOT PRICE CLIPPED, showing shelf price of £14.95. Slight shelf wear to top & bottom edges and to head & tail of spine. Spine heavily faded. VG* Contents condition: PRIVATE COPY NOT EX-LIBRARY. Clean, crisp, tight and bright with no reading wear, no marks or tanning to text. Seems little used if at all. FINE.* Illustrations: Two blocks of 4pp b/w photo-plates & prints.* Pages: 234 pp. text. xxii pp. notes, sources, index & blank pages at rear.* Description: No city in Britain has a history like Bath?s. Others have exploited their mineral waters ? Bristol, Buxton and Tunbridge Wells for example ? and many have been holiday resorts, but none has ever been the country?s alternative capital as Bath was for almost 100 years, a place to which a large part of society came annually and just about everyone who was anybody visited at least once. Thomas Hinde describes the most curious, amusing and scandalous personalities and events which made this such an unique community in the eighteenth century and which still makes Bath such a popular city today. Nine hundred years of Bath: the place, its people and it?s gossip.* A NEAR FINE copy of the 1st./1st. thus with minor wear and faded dust jacket reducing it to VG.*

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Bookseller: Cocksparrow Books (GB)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 3260
Title: Tales from the Pump Room
Author: Hinde, Thomas
Format/Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Used - F/VG+/VG
Quantity Available: 1
Edition: 1st. Edn, 1st. Imp.
ISBN 10: 0575039655
ISBN 13: 9780575039650
Publisher: Gollancz
Place of Publication: London UK 256
Date Published: 1987-01-01
Size: 21.8 x 14 x 2.6 cm

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