Climbs In The Canadian Rockies
by Frank S. Smythe
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Acceptable/Good
- Seller
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Goring-by-Sea, West Sussex, United Kingdom
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
Hodder and Stoughton, 1950. Hardcover. Acceptable/Good. 1950. First Printed. 260 pages. Photographic dust jacket over blue cloth with gilt lettering. Colour photographic frontispiece. Black and white photographic plates throughout. Light tanning to pages with moderate cracking to gutters exposing netting; pages remain attached. Minor rips to page edges but text remains legible. Boards have minor corner bumping and edgewear with light crushing to spine ends. Light mottling overall. Spine has light sunning. Lettering remains bright and clear. Book has a slight forward lean. Unclipped dust jacket with moderate rubbing, chipping and tearing to edges. Moderate tanning and scuffing overall.
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Details
- Bookseller
- World of Rare Books (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1666619745ADA
- Title
- Climbs In The Canadian Rockies
- Author
- Frank S. Smythe
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Acceptable/Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Hodder and Stoughton
- Date Published
- 1950
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Goring-by-Sea, West Sussex
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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....
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...