Castles
by Oman, Charles
- Used
- Fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fine/No Jacket
- Seller
-
Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
London: The Great Western Railway, 1926 Book. Fine. Hardcover. First Edition. Small 4to. xii, 229 (3) pp, tissue-protected color frontis, preface, list of illustrations, introduction, Part I. English Castles: The Thames Valley and Its Castles; Castles of Wessex; Castles of the West Midlands; Devonshire and Its Castles; Cornwall and Its Castles; Part II. Castles of Wales, and of the Marches: Introductory; Castles of Shropshire and Herefordshire; Castles of Monmouthshire and Brecknock; Castles of Glamorgan and Gower; Castles of Carmarthenshire and Pembrokeshire; Castles of North Wales; index with large color fold-out map in pocket at back, with 105 illustrations, 67 drawings, 5 plans, 2 colored plates, and 2 maps. First Edition, 1926. Only the very faintest wear to bottom edge, else, Pristine. Clean, tight and strong binding with no underlining, highlighting or marginalia. Maroon paper-covered boards with black-cloth backstrip, and gilt lettering to front board and spine..
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Details
- Bookseller
- West Side Book Shop, ABAA (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 004573
- Title
- Castles
- Author
- Oman, Charles
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- The Great Western Railway
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1926
- Keywords
- ARCHITECTURE HISTORY GREAT BRITAIN CASTLES ENGLAND AND WALES
- Bookseller catalogs
- ARCHITECTURE;
- Size
- Small 4to
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About the Seller
West Side Book Shop, ABAA
Biblio member since 2006
Ann Arbor, Michigan
About West Side Book Shop, ABAA
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Glossary
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- 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...
- Gilt
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- Marginalia
- Marginalia, in brief, are notes written in the margins, or beside the text of a book by a previous owner. This is very...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- 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....
- Fine
- A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...