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Abominable Snowmen: Legend Come to Life. The Story of Sub-Humans on Five Continents from the Early Ice Age Until Today
by Sanderson, Ivan T
- Used
- fair
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Fair/No Jacket
- Seller
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Greensboro, North Carolina, United States
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About This Item
Philadelphia and New York: Chilton Company, 1961. Second Printing. . Hardcover. Fair/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Octavo. 525 pages, indexed. Hardcover bound in grey cloth. The binding is rubbed and is soiled from handling. Spine is browned. Lacks the front flyleaf, and the front inner hinge is opening and pulling away some from the spine. The text block itself is a bit toned but is sound. Outside edges of the text block are foxed. A reading or reference copy only. Illustrated with some photos and drawings. Stated second printing.
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- Bookseller
- Pages Past Used and Rare Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 050908
- Title
- Abominable Snowmen: Legend Come to Life. The Story of Sub-Humans on Five Continents from the Early Ice Age Until Today
- Author
- Sanderson, Ivan T
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fair
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Second Printing.
- Publisher
- Chilton Company
- Place of Publication
- Philadelphia and New York
- Date Published
- 1961
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- 1961; Ivan T. Sanderson; Abominable Snowman; Snowmen; Sub-Human; Ice Age; Cryptozoology; Zoology; Mystery.
- Bookseller catalogs
- Animals;
Terms of Sale
Pages Past Used and Rare Books
14 day return guarantee, with full refund if an item arrives mis-described or damaged. Buyer pays return shipping.
About the Seller
Pages Past Used and Rare Books
Biblio member since 2017
Greensboro, North Carolina
About Pages Past Used and Rare Books
Pages Past is a small used & rare bookshop located a few blocks from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. Since 1996 we have been serving the Triad community as well as customers from around the world. We have around 15-20,000 volumes in our shop. We specialize in North Carolina, Virginia, Civil War, Old Leather, Christianity, Eastern and Western Philosophies, and the simply unusual. We very likely have the oldest books in Greensboro; we keep a nice selection of antiquarian volumes and scholarly books.
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- Hinge
- The portion of the book closest to the spine that allows the book to be opened and closed.
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Foxed
- Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...
- New
- A new book is a book previously not circulated to a buyer. Although a new book is typically free of any faults or defects, "new"...
- Text Block
- Most simply the inside pages of a book. More precisely, the block of paper formed by the cut and stacked pages of a book....
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- 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....
- Soiled
- Generally refers to minor discoloration or staining.
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
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