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The Hungry Forties: Life Under the Bread Tax. Descriptive Letters and Other Testimonies from Contemporary Witnesses
by Cobden Unwin (intro.)
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good Condition/No Dust Jacket
- Seller
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Bristol, United Kingdom
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About This Item
T. Fisher Unwin, London, 1904. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. Size: 8vo. 274 pp. Text contains occasional pencil markings. Binding firm. Spine slightly cocked and faded. Sticker residue to base of spine. Slight foxing front/rear pages, but body of book mostly clean and unfoxed. Edges foxed and browned. Corners slightly bumped. Illustrated. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilogram. Category: History; England; 19th century; Sociology & Culture. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 36592. .
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- Bookseller
- Dreadnought Books
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 36592
- Title
- The Hungry Forties: Life Under the Bread Tax. Descriptive Letters and Other Testimonies from Contemporary Witnesses
- Author
- Cobden Unwin (intro.)
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good Condition
- Jacket Condition
- No Dust Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- T. Fisher Unwin
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1904
- Keywords
- BZDB243 history, social, economics History; England; 19th century; Sociology & Culture. Cobden Unwin (intro.) The Hungry Forties: Life Under the Bread Tax. Descriptive Letters and Other Testimonies from Contemporary Witnesses
- Bookseller catalogs
- History; Sociology & Culture;
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Dreadnought Books
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About Dreadnought Books
Founded in 2010, Dreadnought Books is a second-hand and out of print book dealer specialising in history, with a particular focus on military, social and labour history.
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- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- First Edition
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- Foxed
- Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...
- 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....
- Cocked
- Refers to a state where the spine of a book is lightly "twisted" in such a way that the front and rear boards of a book do not...
- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
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