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Betterment Briefs: a Collection of Published Papers on Organized Industrial Efficiency
by Jacobs, H. W
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good with no dust jacket
- ISBN 10
- 0959793100
- ISBN 13
- 9780959793109
- Seller
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Dunedin, New Zealand, New Zealand
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
New York: John Wiley & Sons. Good with no dust jacket. 1909. Hardcover. 0959793100 . Second edition, with a new 2 page preface (the first edition was in 1908) . [iv], 271 pages + frontis + 19 pages advertisements. Blue cloth covers with gilt titles on spine. Dimensions: 9 1/8" by 6". Numerous black and white photographic in-text illustrations, mostly of tools and machinery used in the Railway Machine Shop. Total of 151 figures, including some graphs, tables, and diagrams. No signatures. 1/8" chip in fore edge of frontis and title page. Slight nick to fore edge of preliminary leaves. Moderate rubbing to cloth at ends of spine and corners of boards. Moderate staining and dust soiling to cloth covers and page edges. Gutters intact at hinges. Some splitting to gutter at frontis. ; 8vo .
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Details
- Bookseller
- Renaissance Books
(NZ)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 003609
- Title
- Betterment Briefs: a Collection of Published Papers on Organized Industrial Efficiency
- Author
- Jacobs, H. W
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good with no dust jacket
- ISBN 10
- 0959793100
- ISBN 13
- 9780959793109
- Publisher
- John Wiley & Sons
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1909
- Keywords
- 0959793100, New Zealand Botany
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Renaissance Books
Biblio member since 2005
Dunedin, New Zealand
About Renaissance Books
We are located in Dunedin, in the South Island of New Zealand. We have in stock over 8,500 books. We are a general antiquarian and out-of-print home-based bookseller, with some specialty areas in English literature, Maori, Travel, Tibet, and New Zealand history.
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- First Edition
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- Spine
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- Leaves
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- Title Page
- A page at the front of a book which may contain the title of the book, any subtitles, the authors, contributors, editors, the...
- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- 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...
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Fore Edge
- The portion of a book that is opposite the spine. That part of a book which faces the wall when shelved in a traditional...
- Gutter
- The inside margin of a book, connecting the pages to the joints near the binding.
- Cloth
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