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Extraordinary Popular Delusions And The Madness Of Crowds: With Facsimile Title Pages And Reproduction Of Original Illustrations From The Editions Of 1841 And 1852 Vol I
by Charles Mackay
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Acceptable/Acceptable
- Seller
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Goring-by-Sea, West Sussex, United Kingdom
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About This Item
Farrar Straus & Giroux, 1956. Hardcover. Acceptable/Acceptable. 1956. Second Edition. 724 pages. Illustrated dust jacket over red cloth with gilt lettering. Volume I. Rough-cut pages. Light thumb marking, foxing and tanning to pages, pastedowns and free endpapers. More prominent to text block edges. Hinges are moderately cracked causing boards to be loose; cracking lighter to gutters. Boards have minor corner bumping and edgewear with mild tanning and scuffing overall. Spine has minor tanning with soft crushing to ends. Lettering remains bright and clear. Unclipped dust jacket is in two pieces with with heavy rubbing, chipping and tearing to edges. Moderate tanning and scuffing overall with heavy loss and creasing to panels.
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- Bookseller
- World of Rare Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1694672810ADA
- Title
- Extraordinary Popular Delusions And The Madness Of Crowds: With Facsimile Title Pages And Reproduction Of Original Illustrations From The Editions Of 1841 And 1852 Vol I
- Author
- Charles Mackay
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Acceptable/Acceptable
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Farrar Straus & Giroux
- Date Published
- 1956
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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...
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- 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...
- 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...
- Cracked
- In reference to a hinge or a book's binding, means that the glue which holds the opposing leaves has allowed them to separate,...
- 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....
- 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...
- 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....
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