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The Mechanical Bride: Folklore of Industrial Man
by Herbert Marshall McLuhan
- Used
- fair
- first
- Condition
- Fair/Poor
- Seller
-
Berkeley, California, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
Vanguard Press, 1951. Hard cover. Fair/Poor. First edition.
Jacket is tanned, soiled, and heavily worn and chipped along edges, with large missing sections. Jacket front and back covers are detached, but jacket spine remains attached to jacket front cover. Cover is rubbed and cover corners are worn. Top edge of back cover is bumped. Spine is cocked and cracked but binding is secure. Text block is tanned along edges with some foxing on top edge, visible in the margins, of some pages, but text is bright and unmarked.
As is.
Jacket is tanned, soiled, and heavily worn and chipped along edges, with large missing sections. Jacket front and back covers are detached, but jacket spine remains attached to jacket front cover. Cover is rubbed and cover corners are worn. Top edge of back cover is bumped. Spine is cocked and cracked but binding is secure. Text block is tanned along edges with some foxing on top edge, visible in the margins, of some pages, but text is bright and unmarked.
As is.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Moe's Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 2046405
- Title
- The Mechanical Bride: Folklore of Industrial Man
- Author
- Herbert Marshall McLuhan
- Format/Binding
- Hard cover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fair
- Jacket Condition
- Poor
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Vanguard Press
- Date Published
- 1951
- Keywords
- lucy
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Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- 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...
- 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....
- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- Cocked
- Refers to a state where the spine of a book is lightly "twisted" in such a way that the front and rear boards of a book do not...
- Soiled
- Generally refers to minor discoloration or staining.
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