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The Columbia History of the World
by Garraty, John A. and Peter Gay
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good/Good
- ISBN 10
- 0880290048
- ISBN 13
- 9780880290043
- Seller
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Toms River, New Jersey, United States
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About This Item
Harper & Row Publishers, 1986. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. 7th Printing From the book, ""The Columbia History of the World is a unique volume which begins with the formation of the universe and covers every major aspect of human history to the present day."" Forty professors from Colombia collaborated to bring this volume together. 7th Printing. Hard cover in very good condition with beige boards and black spine cloth containing silver gilt spine lettering. Text block clean and tight with no writings, no markings noted. Internally there is deep age toning to the papers. Dust jacket in good condition with light shelf wear, some edge wear, and tiny chips & wrinkles to the head of spine; not price clipped. * A large tome with 1,237 numbered pages. 8 1/4"" wide x 9 1/2"" tall x 2 5/8"" thick.
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- Bookseller
- Elk Creek Heritage Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 000296
- Title
- The Columbia History of the World
- Author
- Garraty, John A. and Peter Gay
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- ISBN 10
- 0880290048
- ISBN 13
- 9780880290043
- Publisher
- Harper & Row Publishers
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1986
- Keywords
- World History
- Bookseller catalogs
- History;
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About the Seller
Elk Creek Heritage Books
Biblio member since 2015
Toms River, New Jersey
About Elk Creek Heritage Books
Elk Creek Heritage Books opened for business in 2002 with both online selling and an open shop. We continue now as an online-only bookshop and maintain a growing inventory with new additions regularly uploaded. Our largest subject areas include History, Religion, Biography, and Fiction, however, we also carry books on many other subjects, in addition to our collection of rare and antiquarian books. Our goal is to provide you, our customer, with a completely satisfactory experience.
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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...
- Shelf Wear
- Shelf wear (shelfwear) describes damage caused over time to a book by placing and removing a book from a shelf. This damage is...
- 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....
- 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....
- 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...
- 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...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
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