The Fauna And Flora Of The Ilfracombe District Of North Devon
by Mervyn G Palmer (ed.)
- Used
- Acceptable
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Acceptable
- Seller
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Goring-by-Sea, West Sussex, United Kingdom
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About This Item
James Townsend & Sons, 1946. Hardcover. Acceptable. 1946. No Edition Remarks. 266 pages. No dust jacket. Grey boards with green cloth spine. Includes photographic plates. Fold-out map to rear. Foreword by F S Wallis. Pages have slight foxing, tanning and minor thumbing. Gutters and hinges very cracked with exposed netting. Feeling loose and shaken overall. Previous owner's stamp to front endpaper. A few dog-eared corners. Some annotations and marginalia throughout. Boards have some edge wear, with pronounced bumping and fraying to corners, while spine ends are crushed and frayed. Rather scratched, rubbed and marked overall. Some water staining to rear. Boards are slightly bowed.
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- Bookseller
- World of Rare Books (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1652903533DPB
- Title
- The Fauna And Flora Of The Ilfracombe District Of North Devon
- Author
- Mervyn G Palmer (ed.)
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Acceptable
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- James Townsend & Sons
- Date Published
- 1946
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Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Marginalia
- Marginalia, in brief, are notes written in the margins, or beside the text of a book by a previous owner. This is very...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- 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....
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Acceptable
- A non-traditional book condition description that generally refers to a book in readable condition, although no standard exists...
- Shaken
- A hardcover in which the text block is loose, but still attached to the binding.
- 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,...