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Engines of the Human Body; Being the Substance of Christmas Lectures Given at the Royal Institution of Great Britain, Christmas 1916-1917
by Sir Arthur Keith
- Used
- Acceptable
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Acceptable
- Seller
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Goring-by-Sea, West Sussex, United Kingdom
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
Williams & Norgate, 1925. Hardcover. Acceptable. 1925. Second Edition, Revised. 343 pages. No dust jacket. Blue cloth with gilt lettering. Black and white plate detached from binding and tucked into back of book. Contains black and white in-text illustrations. Pages are lightly tanned and foxed throughout, heavier to endpapers and pastedowns. Cracking to gutters of a few pages with exposed binding. Binding is slightly shaky. Boards have mild edge wear with slight rubbing to surfaces. Soft crushing to spine ends. Book is slightly forward leaning. Mild tanning to spine and edges.
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Details
- Bookseller
- World of Rare Books
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1657718802MEP
- Title
- Engines of the Human Body; Being the Substance of Christmas Lectures Given at the Royal Institution of Great Britain, Christmas 1916-1917
- Author
- Sir Arthur Keith
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Acceptable
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Williams & Norgate
- Date Published
- 1925
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Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- 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...
- Plate
- Full page illustration or photograph. Plates are printed separately from the text of the book, and bound in at production. I.e.,...
- 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...
- 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...
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- Acceptable
- A non-traditional book condition description that generally refers to a book in readable condition, although no standard exists...
- 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....
- Foxed
- Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...
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