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The Boletes of Michigan
by Alexander H, Thiers, Harry D Smith
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good+/Very Good+
- ISBN 10
- 0472855905
- ISBN 13
- 9780472855902
- Seller
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Nashua, New Hampshire, United States
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About This Item
First edition hardcover with dust jacket, published by University of Michigan Press, 1970. An invaluable resource on close to 200 species of boletes of the Michigan area. Professor Smith was Director of the University of Michigan Herbarium. Professor Thiers specialized in Mycology at San Francisco State University. More than 300 b&w photos. 428 pages with Index. 6-1/4" X 9-1/4". The dust jacket is intact and is not price clipped. Jacket has been protected with a clear, removable cover. Jacket has some chipping at the head and heel of the spine and at the top right corners. Some rubbing wear to the jacket as well. No former ownership marks, no writing on the text pages. Some smudging to the edges of the text block. Cover boards are flat, some slight edge wear at the tips of the corners. Sewn binding is tight and square. Not a library discard copy, not a remainder copy. Attached photos are of the copy we have in our inventory. Seller Inventory # 24-02075
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- Bookseller
- Hopkins Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 24-02076
- Title
- The Boletes of Michigan
- Author
- Alexander H, Thiers, Harry D Smith
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good+
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good+
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0472855905
- ISBN 13
- 9780472855902
- Publisher
- University Of Michigan Press
- Place of Publication
- Jackson, Tennessee, U.s.a.
- Date Published
- 1970
- Bookseller catalogs
- Science;
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- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- 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....
- 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....
- 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...
- Heel
- The lower most portion of the spine when the book is standing vertically.
- Price Clipped
- When a book is described as price-clipped, it indicates that the portion of the dust jacket flap that has the publisher's...
- Remainder
- Book(s) which are sold at a very deep discount to alleviate publisher overstock. Often, though not always, they have a remainder...
- 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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