Glorious Devon (in original dust jacket)
by S.P.B. Mais
- Used
- Fine
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Fine/very good
- Seller
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Bordentown, New Jersey, United States
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About This Item
London: Great Western Railway Company, 1929. Second edition. Hardcover. Fine/very good. Hardcover in grey cloth lettered in gilt. Second edition. Map endpapers. vii+ 152 pp. with bibliography index. Color frontispiece. Illustrated with 96 full [page sepia phptpgraphic plates, 67 pen and ink sketches, and 11 maps. A tight, bright example, some offsetting to the map endpapers and a small, neat ownership signatire and 1930 date top edge of the half-title. In the uncommon original color illustrated dust wrapper, bright, minor faults head and foot of spine. Touring guide to Devon issued by the Great Western Railway. With sections on Exeter and the Exe Valley, East Devon, Torquay, the South Hams, Plymouth, Dartmoor, Lynton, Ilfracombe, Barnstaple, Cloverlly.
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Details
- Bookseller
- The Old Book Shop of Bordentown (ABNJ) (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- E21133
- Title
- Glorious Devon (in original dust jacket)
- Author
- S.P.B. Mais
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- very good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Second edition
- Publisher
- Great Western Railway Company
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1929
- Keywords
- travel, tourism, great britain, devon, dartmoor, lynton, railroad
- Bookseller catalogs
- Travel;
Terms of Sale
The Old Book Shop of Bordentown (ABNJ)
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About the Seller
The Old Book Shop of Bordentown (ABNJ)
Biblio member since 2005
Bordentown, New Jersey
About The Old Book Shop of Bordentown (ABNJ)
The Old Book Shop of Bordentown is a general used/rare bookshop open to the public Tues.-Sunday 11AM to 5PM (8 PM on Fridays). 10,000 books on premises with another 25,000 in stock. Areas of speciality include baseball, New Jersey, American literature, mysteries. Member, ABAA, ILAB,Antiquarian Booksellers of New Jersey. Located in historic Bordentown City, New Jeresy (est. 1682).
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