HAWKINS' ELECTRICAL DICTIONARY A CYCLOPEDIA OF WORDS, TERMS, PHRASES AND DATA USED IN THE ELECTRIC ARTS, TRADES AND SCIENCES
by Hawkins, N., M.E. And Associates
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Fair+
- Seller
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St. Charles, Michigan, United States
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About This Item
72 Fifth Ave. New York; Imperial Arcade, London: Theo Audel & Co. Publishers. Fair+/No dust jacket. Black flexible cloth assimilated leather w/moderate wear, rubbing & bumping to cover, gilt lettering on spinestrip, all edges gilt, no owner's names, inside hinge is split due to aged drying and seriously pulling away from interior otherwise book text interior is in Very Good shape, No owner's names, engraved frontis portrait of Thomas A. Edison w/facsimilie autograph, interior is solidly bound, clean & crisp. Early 20th Century Collectible/1917. . Fair+. Flexible Cloth. 1918.
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- Bookseller
- Julie's Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 026555
- Title
- HAWKINS' ELECTRICAL DICTIONARY A CYCLOPEDIA OF WORDS, TERMS, PHRASES AND DATA USED IN THE ELECTRIC ARTS, TRADES AND SCIENCES
- Author
- Hawkins, N., M.E. And Associates
- Format/Binding
- Flexible Cloth
- Book Condition
- Used - Fair+
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Theo Audel & Co. Publishers
- Place of Publication
- 72 Fifth Ave. New York; Imperial Arcade, London
- Date Published
- 1918
- Keywords
- REFERENCE MATERIALS-ELECTRICITY- DICTIONARIES, EARLY 20TH CENTURY COLLECTIBLES, TRADES AND SCIENCES Science
- Bookseller catalogs
- Science;
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
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St. Charles, Michigan
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- Rubbing
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- Hinge
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- Fair+
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- Jacket
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