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Thatching and Thatched Buildings
by Billett, Michael
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- VG++/f/f
- ISBN 10
- 0709172052
- ISBN 13
- 9780709172055
- Seller
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Salisbury, Wiltshire, United Kingdom
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About This Item
HARDBACK SHIPPED FROM THE UK* Edition: 1st. Thus.* Impression: 1st.* Date of Publication: 1979* Publisher: Robert Hale. * Binding and cover condition: Pale blue cloth, gilt title to spine. No bumps, rubs or other visible faults. FINE.* Jacket condition: Colour photo-illustrated dust wrapper showing a thatcher on a roof. NOT PRICE CLIPPED, showing shelf price of £5.50. Re/white titles to spine & face. No other visible faults. FINE* Contents condition: PRIVATE COPY NOT EX-LIBRARY. Clean, crisp, tight and bright with no reading wear, no marks to text, slight spotting to top edge, otherwise no visible faults. VG++.* Illustrations: Two 8pp. blocks of b/w photos & line drawings throughout. * Pages: 200 pp. text. ix pp. index blank pages at rear.* Description: The initial chapters of this book describe the development of thatching through the ages, the plant materials used and the various types of buildings covered by thatch which can still be seen in rural England. The numbers and variety of people who live in thatched homes are also looked at. Next there is an outline of the craft of thatching. The later chapters describe over five hundred of the most attractive thatched villages in England.* A NEAR FINE copy with NO MAJOR FAULTS. V sl top edge spotting reduces it to VG++.*
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- Bookseller
- Cocksparrow Books
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 5948
- Title
- Thatching and Thatched Buildings
- Author
- Billett, Michael
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - VG++/f/f
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st. Edn, 1st. Imp.
- ISBN 10
- 0709172052
- ISBN 13
- 9780709172055
- Publisher
- Robert Hale.
- Place of Publication
- London UK. 201
- Date Published
- 1979-01-01
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