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The Cable Car Book
by Smallwood, Charles; Miller, Warren Edward; DeNevi, Don
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Fair - Repaired
- ISBN 10
- 0517408783
- ISBN 13
- 9780517408780
- Seller
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nr Canterbury, Kent, United Kingdom
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About This Item
New York, NY, USA: Bonanza Books, 1987. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Fair - Repaired. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. 152pp, with monochrome photographic illustrations. Quarter bound in brown cloth over brown paper-covered boards, gilt titles on spine. Lightly wear to cloth on spine heel. Dusty top text block edge, edges just starting to fox. Internally neat, clean, bright and tight. Dust jacket now protected in a Mylar wrapper, tape repair 10cm long tear on front, chipping to edges not price clipped. Landscape 8vo. Collection of over 150 black and white photographs documenting the history of San Francisco's cable car system.
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- Bookseller
- BookAddiction
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 013050
- Title
- The Cable Car Book
- Author
- Smallwood, Charles; Miller, Warren Edward; DeNevi, Don
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Fair - Repaired
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0517408783
- ISBN 13
- 9780517408780
- Publisher
- Bonanza Books
- Place of Publication
- New York, NY, USA
- Date Published
- 1987
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾
- Keywords
- Transport, Cable Cars,
- X weight
- 0 kg
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About BookAddiction
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- 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...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- 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....
- 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...
- 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...
- 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....
- Heel
- The lower most portion of the spine when the book is standing vertically.
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- 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...
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