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A Hundred Years in the Saddle: Avon and Somerset Mounted Police, 1899-1999
by Shattock, David Foulkes, Stephen
- Used
- Paperback
- first
- Condition
- F/F/ND
- ISBN 10
- 1874092850
- ISBN 13
- 9781874092858
- Seller
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Salisbury, Wiltshire, United Kingdom
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About This Item
SOFTBACK SHIPPED FROM THE UK.* Edition: 1st. Thus.* Impression: 1st.* Date of Publication: 1998* Publisher: Broadcast Books.* Binding and cover condition: Sepia tone photo-illustrated soft card covers, no bumps or rubs. No wear to edges or corners, no creases to spine or hinge. AS NEW* Contents condition: PRIVATE COPY NOT EX-LIBRARY, Clean, crisp, tight & bright. No annotations, marks or inscriptions, no visible faults. No tanning. AS NEW* Illustrations: Numerous b/w archive photos within text throughout.* Pages: 187 pp. text. xxi pp. Appendices, picture credits & index at rear.* Product Description:- A portrait of the Avon and Somerset Mounted Police in their centenary year. Local history, politics and stories are intertwined to explore its winning performances at the Horse of the Year Show, surviving two world wars, attempts at dissolution and even the policeman who ate his own horse. This is a FINE, AS NEW copy of the 1st./1st. no visible faults.*
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- Bookseller
- Cocksparrow Books (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1662
- Title
- A Hundred Years in the Saddle: Avon and Somerset Mounted Police, 1899-1999
- Author
- Shattock, David Foulkes, Stephen
- Format/Binding
- Paperback
- Book Condition
- Used - F/F/ND
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 1874092850
- ISBN 13
- 9781874092858
- Publisher
- Broadcast Books
- Place of Publication
- Bristol UK 192
- This edition first published
- 1998
- Size
- 23.4 x 16.4 x 1.4 cm
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