Practical Handbook on Port Wine
by TAIT, Geoffrey M.:
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- Hardcover
- Condition
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- Seller
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Dorchester, Dorset, United Kingdom
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About This Item
London, Harper & Co. 1925 1st. Hardback, 7.5 x 5 ins. Quarter bound with grey cloth to spine and maroon leather effect paper to bards. With gilt lettering to front and spine. In good condition. Some rubbing and bumps to edges and corners, some handling marks and fading to boards. Some minor dark spots to endpapers. No penned inscriptions. Pages all clean and tight. Else a clean and tight copy. 60pp. B&W frontis + 16 B&W full-page illustrations.
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- Bookseller
- The Antique Map & Bookshop (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 93764
- Title
- Practical Handbook on Port Wine
- Author
- TAIT, Geoffrey M.:
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- London, Harper & Co. 1925 1st
- Keywords
- WINE AND DRINK Wine
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The Antique Map & Bookshop
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Dorchester, Dorset
About The Antique Map & Bookshop
The Antique Map & Bookshop was established in 1976 and has been in Puddletown since 1978. PUDDLETOWN is situated just outside DORCHESTER in the county of DORSET, on the A35 to BOURNEMOUTH. The village has a by-pass now which means there is easy access to the village and ample space for parking. Our shop is directly on the main road through the village.
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- Rubbing
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- Gilt
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- Spine
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