New York: Roy Publishers, 1964. First Edition. Octavo. Cloth boards in dust jacket; 240pp. Ownership signature on front free endpapers. Bottom edge of front board mildly bumped, some toning to endpapers, else a tight, clean, unmarked copy. Jacket showing minor shelf wear, spine mildly sunned. Very Good.

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Bookseller: Lorne Bair Rare Books (US)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 51023
Title: A Concise History of Italy
Author: WHELPTON, Eric
Book Condition: Used
Quantity Available: 1
Edition: First Edition
Publisher: Roy Publishers
Place of Publication: New York
Date Published: 1964
Bookseller catalogs: Italy;

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Lorne Bair Rare Books specializes in books, mansuscripts, and printed ephemera relating to American Social History, with an emphasis on radical and utopian movements of the 18th, 19th, and 20th centuries. We are available in our showroom by appointment, at shows, and on-line through various booksellers' sites or at our website www.lornebair.com.

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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....
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...
Jacket: Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
First Edition: In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
Octavo: Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
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...
Sunned: Damage done to a book cover or dust jacket caused by exposure to direct sunlight. Very strong fluorescent light can cause slight...