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This Shaking Earth; earthquakes, volcanoes and their impact on ou r world
by Gribbin, John
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- VG+/VG+/VG+
- ISBN 10
- 0283984627
- ISBN 13
- 9780283984624
- Seller
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Salisbury, Wiltshire, United Kingdom
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About This Item
HARDBACK ?UNCOMMON? SHIPPED FROM THE UK* Edition: 1st. Thus.* Impression: 1st.* Date of Publication: 1978* Publisher: Sidgewick & Jackson.* Binding and cover condition: Blue cloth, gilt title to spine. No bumps or rubs, slight fade to top & bottom edges. All edges aged. VG+* Jacket condition: Colour photographic dust wrapper. NOT PRICE CLIPPED, but showing no shelf price. Very small nicks and wear to top edge and to head & tail of spine. VG+* Contents condition: PRIVATE COPY NOT EX-LIBRARY. Black end papers. Clean, crisp, tight and bright with no reading wear, no marks to text, no visible faults. FINE.* Illustrations: iv pp. Bibliography, acknowledgements & index at rear.* Description: Earthquakes and Volcanos have always held a fascination for mankind. This book is the first thoroughly illustrated study to combine, in popular terms, current scientific theories with the impact on human beings of the massive movements of the Earth?s crust.* A NEAR FINE copy only minor faults reducing it to VG+*
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- Bookseller
- Cocksparrow Books
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 3313
- Title
- This Shaking Earth; earthquakes, volcanoes and their impact on ou r world
- Author
- Gribbin, John
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - VG+/VG+/VG+
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0283984627
- ISBN 13
- 9780283984624
- Publisher
- Sidgwick & Jackson (Bison)
- Place of Publication
- London Uk 191
- This edition first published
- 1978
- Size
- 28.7 x 21.6 x 2.5 cm
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