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Heraldry for the Local Historian and Genealogist
by Friar, Stephen
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- VG/VG/VG
- ISBN 10
- 086299893X
- ISBN 13
- 9780862998936
- Seller
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Salisbury, Wiltshire, United Kingdom
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About This Item
HARDBACK "DIFFICULT TO FIND," SHIPPED FROM THE UK* Edition: 1st.* Impression: 1st.* Date of Publication: 1992* Publisher: Alan Sutton.* Binding and cover condition: Mid Blue cloth, Gilt title to spine. Slight bumps to corners no rubs, spine lightly dished. VG.* Jacket condition: Colour illustrative cover. NOT PRICE CLIPPED, showing shelf price of £16.99. Slight shelf wear to top & bottom edge and to head of spine. One small tear to middle of inside front flap. VG+* Contents condition: Ex-library copy with usual stamps and fep removed. Clean, tight and bright but with some turned down corners, no marks to text, seems lightly read. VG.* Illustrations: 8 pp Block of colour illustrations & b/w photos, prints and line drawings throughout.* Pages: 246 pp. text. xxv pp. Appendices, glossary & Index at rear.* Description: Here Stephen Friar, an experienced armorist and local historian, provides the reader with the keys to unlock the mysteries of heraldry?s language, conventions and traditions. A jargon-free introduction to heraldry for local historians and genealogists, which explains the origins and significance of heraldry in the lives of noble families, the interpretation of heraldic devices, and the symbols themselves..* A VERY GOOD copy of the First Edition with library stamps & minor faults.*
Synopsis
An immensely moving, powerfully romantic novel about the vagaries of love and the legacy of war, The Visible World is narrated by the American-born son of Czech immigrants. His New York childhood, lived in a boisterous community of the displaced, is suffused with stories: fragments of European history, Czech fairy tales, and family secrets gleaned from overheard conversations. Central in his young imagination is the heroic account of the seven Czech parachutists who, in 1942, assassinated a high-ranking Nazi. Yet one essential story has always evaded him: his mother's. He suspects she had a great wartime love, the loss of which bred a sadness that slowly engulfed her. As an adult, the narrator travels to Prague, hoping to piece together her hidden past.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Cocksparrow Books
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1557
- Title
- Heraldry for the Local Historian and Genealogist
- Author
- Friar, Stephen
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - VG/VG/VG
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 086299893X
- ISBN 13
- 9780862998936
- Publisher
- Sutton Publishing Ltd
- Place of Publication
- Stroud UK 288
- Date Published
- 1992-04-30
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