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More Than A Match
by Barnes, Chester; as told to Peter Madge
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good in Very Good- dust jacket
- ISBN 10
- 0090993101
- ISBN 13
- 9780090993109
- Seller
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Dunedin, New Zealand, New Zealand
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About This Item
London: Stanley Paul. Very Good in Very Good- dust jacket. (1969). First Edition. Hardcover. 0090993101 . No signatures. Some rubbing to edges of dust-jacket. Small 3/8" tear at head of dust-jacket spine. Dust-jacket protected in archival mylar cover. ; 160 pages + plates. Red boards with gilt lettering on spine. Page dimensions: 210 x 134mm. Sport, biography. Table tennis. "Keen players will be interested in the chapter on 'How to Play'. The game's outstanding player actually tells beginners to ignore most of the established strokes! [. . .] the instructional photographs break new ground; they were taken with 'MAC', the £6,000 Motion Analysis Camera in space vehicle research." - from dust-jacket blurb. .
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Details
- Bookseller
- Renaissance Books
(NZ)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 19788
- Title
- More Than A Match
- Author
- Barnes, Chester; as told to Peter Madge
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good in Very Good- dust jacket
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0090993101
- ISBN 13
- 9780090993109
- Publisher
- Stanley Paul
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- (1969)
- Keywords
- 0090993101
Terms of Sale
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Any book not as described may be returned within 14 days of receipt for a full refund.
About the Seller
Renaissance Books
Biblio member since 2005
Dunedin, New Zealand
About Renaissance Books
We are located in Dunedin, in the South Island of New Zealand. We have in stock over 8,500 books. We are a general antiquarian and out-of-print home-based bookseller, with some specialty areas in English literature, Maori, Travel, Tibet, and New Zealand history.
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- Jacket
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- Rubbing
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- Edges
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- Gilt
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- Spine
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- First Edition
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