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The Application of Electric-Motors to Machine-Driving - english
by Andrew Stewart
- Used
- Acceptable
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Acceptable
- Seller
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Goring-by-Sea, West Sussex, United Kingdom
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
S. Rentell & Co, 1905. Hardcover. Acceptable. 1905. No Edition Noted. 134 pages. No dust jacket. Brown cloth with photographic black and white in text images throughout. Moderate tanning to pages with heavier foxing and tanning to pastedowns and endpapers. Visible foxing and dog-eared pages throughout and heavy tanning to text block edges. Both hinges are cracked with exposed netting and cracks to guttering with exposed netting. Binding is loose. Boards have heavy rubbing and water marks. Moderate bumping to corners and heavy crushing to spine ends. Splitting to joints and major tanning to spine. There is fraying to cloth at corners and spine ends.
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Details
- Bookseller
- World of Rare Books
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1654005780DPB
- Title
- The Application of Electric-Motors to Machine-Driving - english
- Author
- Andrew Stewart
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Acceptable
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- S. Rentell & Co
- Date Published
- 1905
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Goring-by-Sea, West Sussex
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- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- 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...
- Cracked
- In reference to a hinge or a book's binding, means that the glue which holds the opposing leaves has allowed them to separate,...
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- 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....
- 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....
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Acceptable
- A non-traditional book condition description that generally refers to a book in readable condition, although no standard exists...
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