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Milner: Viscount Milner of St James and Cape Town
by O'Brien, Terence H
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 009457880X
- ISBN 13
- 9780094578807
- Seller
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nr Canterbury, Kent, United Kingdom
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About This Item
London, UK: Constable, 1979. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. 448pp, [7]pp, black and white plate illustrations (including frontispiece). Blue cloth-covered boards, gilt titles on spine. Top text block edge sprayed blue. 8vo. Text block edges starting to tan, affecting page margins. Otherwise, internally neat, clean, bright and tight. Dust jacket has very light shelf wear, chipping to edges, not price clipped.
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- Bookseller
- BookAddiction
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 023115
- Title
- Milner: Viscount Milner of St James and Cape Town
- Author
- O'Brien, Terence H
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- ISBN 10
- 009457880X
- ISBN 13
- 9780094578807
- Publisher
- Constable
- Place of Publication
- London, UK
- Date Published
- 1979
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾
- Keywords
- South African History, Africa, Cape Town
- X weight
- 0 kg
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Glossary
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- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- 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...
- Plate
- Full page illustration or photograph. Plates are printed separately from the text of the book, and bound in at production. I.e.,...
- 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...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- 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....
- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- 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...
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