Things - A Volume About the Origin and Early History of Many Things, Common and Less Common, Essential and Inessential
Published by The Waverley Book Club, 1954
- First Edition
- Hardcover
- Used
Seller: Cocksparrow Books, Salisbury, Wiltshire, United KingdomCocksparrow Books
AbeBooks seller since July 11, 2023
Condition: Used - Good
£ 24.75
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HARDBACK "HARD TO FIND," SHIPPED FROM THE UK* Edition: 1st. Thus.* Date of Publication: 1954 * Publisher: The Waverley Book Company Ltd.* Binding and cover condition: Blue cloth, Gilt title to spine and embossed design with title to face. No bumps or rubs, no visible faults. FINE* Jacket condition: colour illustrative dust wrapper. NOT PRICE CLIPPED, showing shelf price of 42/-. Some shelf wear to top & bottom edges and to head & tail of spine. Some nicks and small tears around head of spine. GOOD+* Contents:- NOT EX-LIBRARY. Clean, crisp, tight and bright with minimal reading wear, no marks to text. Owners neat book plate inside front cover. VG+* Illustrations: 19 pp colour plates, 160 pp b/w plates.* Pages: 457 pp. text. ix pp. Index & acknowledgements at rear.* Description: The book is about the early history of many things , common and less-common, essential and inessential. It is a volume for the inquisitive , but not always for the solemn. It ranges / from the Aeolian Harp and Aeroplane to Ziggurat and Zip-fastener - some useful, some not, some recent, some as old as the hills. When did men (to take a small example) first use false teeth, fountain pens, water-closets , lawnmowers , violins , vacuum cleaners , safety pins and thermos flasks? Have we always used soap? Did pressure cookers exist before 1900 ? When did men begin paying by cheque? When could you first buy tinned food. ?This book was planned as entertainment, and is now collectable in its own right.* A VERY GOOD copy with NO MAJOR FAULTS in a GOOD+ dust jacket.* 1954-01-01.…
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Bibliographic details
- Title
- Things - A Volume About the Origin and Early History of Many Things, Common and Less Common, Essential and Inessential
- Author
- Grigson, Geoffrey
- Publisher
- The Waverley Book Club
- Publication year
- 1954
- Condition
- VG+/F/GD+
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Edition
- y First Edition
- Seller catalogs
- Encyclopaedia, General Knowledge
Cocksparrow Books
Salisbury, Wiltshire, United Kingdom
AbeBooks seller since July 11, 2023
Shipping rates from United Kingdom to U.S.A.
| Item | 14 to 45 business days | 5 to 10 business days |
|---|---|---|
| First item | £ 11.80 | £ 21.45 |
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Cocksparrow Books is a small on-line second hand book store selling for the last 25 years following the closure of our small bookshop in Wadhurst, East Sussex. We specialise in non-fiction and hard to find titles in a number of fields. We also sell early impression fiction in VG condition avoiding more recent best sellers and airport editions. Our condition notes are as detailed as possible to allow purchasers to fully appreciate what they can expect when they buy. We are open to queries and will do our best to respond quickly to text messages and e-mails. Our offerings may not be the cheapest but if you are looking for a positive outcome to a purchase on-line, do consider ordering from us.…
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Cocksparrow Books
United Kingdom
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