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Your Family Doctor (The Home Medical Encyclopaedia) - Two-Volume Set
by Dr. James Bevan
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Almost as New/VG++
- ISBN 10
- 0855332956
- ISBN 13
- 9780855332952
- Seller
-
Lutterworth, Leicestershire, United Kingdom
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
London: Mitchell Beazley, 1980. Complete and comprehensive two-volume set in slipcase. Red covers with gilt on spine and upper cover, b/w illustrations with spot colour, cream endpapers. Vol I (Reference - How Body works, medical terms, A-Z guide etc), 502pp. Vol II (Practical - First Aid, care of sick, pregnancy, child care, physical fitness etc), 528pp inc index (but numbering consecutive with Vol I = 1030pp). Both volumes in similar condition with neat gift inscriptions on front endpapers but no wear to covers, they look unread. DJs have lightly sunned spines, otherwise no obvious faults. A VG set indeed in red slipcase which has just light shelfwear. Heavy set may require extra postage. Ref:114851. First Edition. Cloth. Almost as New/VG++. 18x24cm.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Church Street Books
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 004851
- Title
- Your Family Doctor (The Home Medical Encyclopaedia) - Two-Volume Set
- Author
- Dr. James Bevan
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- New Almost as New
- Jacket Condition
- VG++
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0855332956
- ISBN 13
- 9780855332952
- Publisher
- Mitchell Beazley
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1980
Terms of Sale
Church Street Books
payment with order. Refund if description inaccurate
About the Seller
Church Street Books
Biblio member since 2007
Lutterworth, Leicestershire
About Church Street Books
Second-hand book dealer (formerly in a Diss Shop), with a stock of around 2000 books from modern quality literature to reference, aviation, classics and antiquarian
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- First Edition
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