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Lost Country Life: How English country folk lived, worked, threshed, thatched, rolled fleece, milled corn, brewed mead...
by Hartley, Dorothy
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0394510364
- ISBN 13
- 9780394510361
- Seller
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Stanley, New York, United States
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About This Item
New York: Pantheon Books, 1979. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. Special Edition. Clean hardcover book and dust jacket. Blue paper-covered boards with gold wheat sheaf on cover, ivory cloth spine with gold lettering. Small bump to one lower corner tip, small bump to lower front board. Binding is tight and square, hinges are sound. All pages and edges are clean with clean endpapers - no names, writing or marks. Illustrated with drawings, glossy black and white plates. 374 pages with Index. Clean jacket is not price clipped, tiny chip at base of spine, slight edge wear; enclosed in new archival quality removable mylar cover. .
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- Bookseller
- Old Scrolls Book Shop - Biblio
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 034162
- Title
- Lost Country Life: How English country folk lived, worked, threshed, thatched, rolled fleece, milled corn, brewed mead...
- Author
- Hartley, Dorothy
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Edition
- Special Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0394510364
- ISBN 13
- 9780394510361
- Publisher
- Pantheon Books
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1979
- Keywords
- Dorothy Hartley, Lost Country Life, Country living, rural life, Medieval England, English history, British history, country living skills
- Bookseller catalogs
- Great Britain; Country Living;
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Old Scrolls Book Shop - Biblio
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About the Seller
Old Scrolls Book Shop - Biblio
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Stanley, New York
About Old Scrolls Book Shop - Biblio
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Glossary
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- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- 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....
- 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...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Price Clipped
- When a book is described as price-clipped, it indicates that the portion of the dust jacket flap that has the publisher's...
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