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B.O.T. Orals and Marine Engineering Knowledge Steam and Motor
by W. C. Macgibbon et al
- Used
- Acceptable
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Acceptable
- Seller
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Goring-by-Sea, West Sussex, United Kingdom
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
James Munro & Company, 1111. Hardcover. Acceptable. Enlarged edition. 1182 pages. No dust jacket. Red cloth with gilt titles to front. Includes various folding diagrams. A heavily damaged book with intense water staining. Pages have some tanning and thumbing. Previous owner's inscription and liquid marks to front pastedown. Prize plate to front endpaper. Heavy creasing and warping to some pages. A few dog-eared corners. Drawings to rear endpaper. Rear hinge extremely cracked with exposed netting; feeling loose. Boards have heavy edge wear, with bumping and fraying to corners, while spine ends are crushed and frayed. Scratched, rubbed and marked overall. Intensely water stained, warped and bubbled overall. Boards slightly bowed. Gilt is dulled and worn. Spine heavily creased.
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- Bookseller
- World of Rare Books
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1629220636PRT
- Title
- B.O.T. Orals and Marine Engineering Knowledge Steam and Motor
- Author
- W. C. Macgibbon et al
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Acceptable
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- James Munro & Company
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
World of Rare Books
Biblio member since 2009
Goring-by-Sea, West Sussex
About World of Rare Books
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- 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....
- Hinge
- The portion of the book closest to the spine that allows the book to be opened and closed.
- 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,...
- Acceptable
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- Plate
- Full page illustration or photograph. Plates are printed separately from the text of the book, and bound in at production. I.e.,...
- Cloth
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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...
- 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...
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