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Oxford University Press General Catalogue. Ninth Edition. To 31 March 1946
by Oxford University Press
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Fair with no dust jacket
- Seller
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Dunedin, New Zealand, New Zealand
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About This Item
Oxford: Oxford University Press. Fair with no dust jacket. [1948]. Hardcover. One leaf (pp.49-50) has a large 5" tear with an untidy sellotape repair. Some staining to margins of leaves. Boards rubbed and worn. 3/8" loss of paper at corners of boards. ; No date [1948]. 505 pages. Papered boards with cloth spine. The date on the title page is 1946, on the cover title it is 1948. Slip tipped in at half-title page: "The text of this Catalogue stands as in 1946 but the Alphabetical List contains books in print at 31 March 1948." The catalogue records that most of the annual large Sheet Almanacks from as far back as 1716 ("the earliest for which the Oxford Press possesses the original plates") were still available at a price of 4s. 6d. each (page 95). The Almanacks were first published in 1674. ; 8vo .
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Details
- Bookseller
- Renaissance Books
(NZ)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 9307
- Title
- Oxford University Press General Catalogue. Ninth Edition. To 31 March 1946
- Author
- Oxford University Press
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fair with no dust jacket
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press
- Place of Publication
- Oxford
- Date Published
- [1948]
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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