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Barcelona: The Civic Stage
by Goldston, Robert
- Used
- good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good/Good
- Seller
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La Porte, Texas, United States
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About This Item
Toronto, ON, Canada: Macmillan Company, 1969. BX5 - A hard cover first edition book in very good- condition with a dust jacket in good+ condition. Stated frist printing with no additional printings indicated. A tight, clean, sound copy in orange cloth covered boards with gold lettering on the spine and gold lettering and a graphic on the front with very minor overall shelf wear plus there is some very light soiling on the top outside paper edges plus there are two remainder marks on the bottom outside paper edges. The dust jacket shows moderate overall shelf wear plus there is some light edge wear overall plus there is some light edge wear with creasing and chipping on the spine top edge and along the front top edge plus there is considerable surface chipping along the back right edge plus there is some light rubbing overall plus there are two closed tears, one on the front top edge (about 0.5") and the other on the back top edge (about 0.25") plus there is some light creasing on the back bottom edge. A portrait of the Spanish city of Barcelona that examines the city's past and present, its customs and culture, its metabolism and government and its plans for the future as related to the need to focus on the human-scaled solutions cities will require to survive as a human environment. Illustrated with black and white drawings by Donald Carrick. By the author of "London: The Civic Sprit." Indexed, 199p.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Good/Good. 6.5"x9.5".
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- Bookseller
- Bookmarc's
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- SCW06289
- Title
- Barcelona: The Civic Stage
- Author
- Goldston, Robert
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- Good
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Macmillan Company
- Place of Publication
- Toronto, ON, Canada
- Date Published
- 1969
- Keywords
- Nonfiction Non-fiction Sociology Social Science Social Science Urbanization Urban Civilization Carrick Donald History Urban Planning Traffic Congestion Giantism Megacity Megacities Commercial Defacement Architectural Sprawl Urban Sprawl Architecture
- Bookseller catalogs
- History: Europe; History: Europe / Spain & Portugal; History: Europe / European History;
- Size
- 6.5"x9.5"
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- Shelf Wear
- Shelf wear (shelfwear) describes damage caused over time to a book by placing and removing a book from a shelf. This damage is...
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- 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...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Good+
- A term used to denote a condition a slight grade better than Good.
- Remainder
- Book(s) which are sold at a very deep discount to alleviate publisher overstock. Often, though not always, they have a remainder...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Chipping
- A defect in which small pieces are missing from the edges; fraying or small pieces of paper missing the edge of a paperback, or...
- 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....
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