The Southworth Company, 1916. Hardcover. Acceptable. All three volumes, being sold as a SET. VOLUME ONE: has blue cloth covered boards, which are faded, scraped. Spine is quite sunned, fading the gilt title. Age-toning to pastedowns and endpapers. FFE has name of previous owner (from the Pember-Nuzum Clinic in Janesville, WI, now defunct). Darker age-toning to outside edges. Several sections of cracking between page signatures. Pages still intact. VOLUMES TWO & THREE: In blue cloth covered slipcases, that are faded, scraped. Spine ends are sunned with faded gilt titles. Scraped along spine. Shelf wear to bottom edges. Within the slip cases are "books" which contain heavy card stock examples of various diseases of the eye and accompanying text. Volume 2 has cards 1-35, and Volume 3 has cards 36-79. These "books" (portfolios) are kept closed with cloth ties (like shoelaces) to keep the cards in place. Shipping weight for all three volumes is easily around 11 pounds.

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Bookseller: Quirky Used Books & More (US)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 230418005
Title: Diagnostics of the Fundus Oculi - Vol.1, 2. 3
Author: Oatman, Edward L
Format/Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Used - Acceptable
Quantity Available: 1
Publisher: The Southworth Company
Date Published: 1916
Weight: 12.00 lbs
Note: May be a multi-volume set and require additional postage.

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Sunned: Damage done to a book cover or dust jacket caused by exposure to direct sunlight. Very strong fluorescent light can cause slight...
Acceptable: A non-traditional book condition description that generally refers to a book in readable condition, although no standard exists...
Cloth: "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
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....
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...
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...
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...