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Great True Adventures
by Thomas, Lowell (editor)
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good/Good
- Seller
-
nr Canterbury, Kent, United Kingdom
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About This Item
London, UK: Arco Publications, 1958. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. 224pp. Red cloth-covered boards, black titles on spine, top text block edge sprayed red. 8vo. Lightly rubbed corners and spine ends, spine head sun-faded. Fore and bottom text block edges tanned and just starting to fox. Endpapers lightly tanned and foxed. Internally pages are lightly toned otherwise internally neat, clean and tight. Dust jacket has moderate shelf wear, chipping to edges and a number of small closed tears and creases along top edge, not price clipped. Seventeen of the world's greatest adventures from ancient times to the present day.
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Details
- Bookseller
- BookAddiction
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 024042
- Title
- Great True Adventures
- Author
- Thomas, Lowell (editor)
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Arco Publications
- Place of Publication
- London, UK
- Date Published
- 1958
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall
- Weight
- 1.98 lbs
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About the Seller
BookAddiction
Biblio member since 2021
nr Canterbury, Kent
About BookAddiction
Based in the leafy hamlet of Chartham Hatch, just a few miles from the historic Cathedral city of Canterbury, BookAddiction offers beautiful, illustrated and collectible used books and a selection of unique works on paper.BookAddiction was established in 1999 (originally trading as The Virtual Bookshelf). We are members of the book-selling co-operation, Ibooknet, which extends the highest professional and ethical standards, and are in the process of joining the Provincial Booksellers' Fairs Association (PBFA).Follow our blog, on books and book collecting at www.bookaddictionuk.wordpress.uk or visit our website at www.bookaddiction.co.uk.We welcome inquiries about our books and endeavour to respond promptly. Please ask away, Offers always welcome.
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Price Clipped
- When a book is described as price-clipped, it indicates that the portion of the dust jacket flap that has the publisher's...
- 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...
- 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....
- 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...
- 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....
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- 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...
- 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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