How Man Became A Giant
by Ilyin, M. & Segal, Y
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- Hardcover
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About This Item
Moscow: Progress Publishers. No Date early 1950s. Small Quarto Size [approx 17.5cm x 24cm]. Good Condition. Boards are rubbed at edges with some marks to spine and upper edges. Offset and foxing to endpapers. Black & white illustrations. Translated from the Russian by Fainna Glagoleva. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. 239 pages. First published in 1940. The story of prehistoric man to the beginning of the 'slave-owning' system. Includes a tribute to Mikhail Ilyin by Lev Kassil. . Reprint. Hardback.
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- Bookseller
- Adelaide Booksellers (AU)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- BIB311920
- Title
- How Man Became A Giant
- Author
- Ilyin, M. & Segal, Y
- Format/Binding
- Hardback
- Book Condition
- Used -
- Edition
- Reprint
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Progress Publishers
- Place of Publication
- Moscow
- Date Published
- No Date early 1950s
- Bookseller catalogs
- Children's Books;
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- Offset
- A technique of printing where the inked image or text is ...
- Reprint
- Any printing of a book which follows the original edition. By definition, a reprint is not a first edition.
- 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....
- 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...
- Quarto
- The term quarto is used to describe a page or book size. A printed sheet is made with four pages of text on each side, and the...