New York: Constable / Dorset, 1978. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Stated on copyright page: First published in Great Britain 1978; Paperback edition first published 1989; This edition printed in the United Sates of America. Number line: M 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1. Hard cover in fine condition with dark mustard colored boards, red spine cloth, and gold gilt spine lettering. Interior text block clean & tight; no writing, no markings noted. Dust jacket likewise in fine condition; not price clipped - there is no printed price. Contains two section of four leaves / eight pages each of black & white photographs of the people, places & buildings narrated in the text. Concludes with a Select Bibliography, Notes to the Chapters, and an extensive Index. 257 numbered pages. * Foreward by Major-General W. D. M. Raeburn, Resident Governor and Keeper of the Jewel House, HM Tower of London. From the book, ""The Tower of London . . . England's most famous secular building. . . .the existing complex dates from 1078. . .This book is the story of the Tower through these last 900 years.""

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Bookseller: Elk Creek Heritage Books (US)
Bookseller's Inventory #: M000972
Title: The Tower of London
Author: Wilson, Derek
Format/Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Used - Fine
Jacket Condition: Fine
Quantity Available: 1
ISBN 10: 0880293861
ISBN 13: 9780880293860
Publisher: Constable / Dorset
Place of Publication: New York
Date Published: 1978
Keywords: History, Tower of London - London England, Fortification - London England - History, Prisons - London England - History
Bookseller catalogs: History; History of Great Britain;

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Elk Creek Heritage Books opened for business in 2002 with both online selling and an open shop. We continue now as an online-only bookshop and maintain a growing inventory with new additions regularly uploaded. Our largest subject areas include History, Religion, Biography, and Fiction, however, we also carry books on many other subjects, in addition to our collection of rare and antiquarian books. Our goal is to provide you, our customer, with a completely satisfactory experience.

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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....
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...
Fine: A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...
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Leaves: Very generally, "leaves" refers to the pages of a book, as in the common phrase, "loose-leaf pages." A leaf is a single sheet...
Jacket: Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
Cloth: "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...