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The Conventional Lies of our Civilization
by Nordau, Max
- Used
- fair
- Hardcover
- Condition
- fair
- Seller
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Santa Monica, California, United States
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About This Item
Chicago: L. Schick, 1884. Seventh edition. Hardcover. fair. Sm. octavo. [8],364pp. Black cloth with gold lettering on spine. Translated from the German. Age wear, staining and chipping on binding. Backstrip on head of spine torn. Signature of previous owner on front flyleaf. Binding in poor, interior in overall very good condition.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Eric Chaim Kline - Bookseller
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 28257
- Title
- The Conventional Lies of our Civilization
- Author
- Nordau, Max
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - fair
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Seventh edition
- Publisher
- L. Schick
- Place of Publication
- Chicago
- Date Published
- 1884
- Keywords
- human nature, religion, mene, tekel, upharsin, civilized society, sociology, political lie, economic lie, matrimonial lie, monarchy, aristocracy
Terms of Sale
Eric Chaim Kline - Bookseller
30 day return guarantee, with full refund including shipping costs for up to 30 days after delivery if an item arrives misdescribed or damaged.
About the Seller
Eric Chaim Kline - Bookseller
Biblio member since 2009
Santa Monica, California
About Eric Chaim Kline - Bookseller
We offer a broad selection of rare, out-of-print and antiquarian books with an emphasis on photography, architecture, art, Judaica, Bibles, Weimar Germany and the Third Reich, modernism, Olympic Games, erotica and foreign-language works, especially German, Hebrew, Polish and Yiddish. We also provide appraisal, auction, consulting and rental services.
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- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Poor
- A book with significant wear and faults. A poor condition book is still a reading copy with the full text still readable. Any...
- 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....
- 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...
- Fair
- is a worn book that has complete text pages (including those with maps or plates) but may lack endpapers, half-title, etc....
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
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