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A HISTORY OF FIREWORKS; With Eight Plates in Colour Thirty-Two in Half-Tone and Line Blocks in the Text
by Brock, Alan St. H
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- Good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good/No Dust Jacket
- Seller
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Eugene, Oregon, United States
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About This Item
London: George G. Harrap & Co. LTD, 1949. First Edition. Hardcover. Good/No Dust Jacket. London: George G. Harrap & Co. LTD, 1949. First edition. 10 x 6 1/4 inches: pp. 280. Dark blue cloth with gold gilt type on spine. With illustrations, plates in color and in half-tone. With appendices, index.
No dust jacket. Some edge wear, rubbing, some discoloration to cloth. Sun fading at spine. Name and date written on pencil, number written in pen on free facing end page. Foxing. First 14 pages have a small tear, creasing near bottom edge of fore edge. Text is unmarked. Binding tight.
No dust jacket. Some edge wear, rubbing, some discoloration to cloth. Sun fading at spine. Name and date written on pencil, number written in pen on free facing end page. Foxing. First 14 pages have a small tear, creasing near bottom edge of fore edge. Text is unmarked. Binding tight.
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- Bookseller
- Joe Pettit Jr., Bookseller; Blackwood Bookhouse
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1056
- Title
- A HISTORY OF FIREWORKS; With Eight Plates in Colour Thirty-Two in Half-Tone and Line Blocks in the Text
- Author
- Brock, Alan St. H
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Dust Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- George G. Harrap & Co. LTD
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1949
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- Jacket
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- Gilt
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