London: Methuen & Co, 1963. First UK edition. Hardcover. Very Good/very good. First UK edition, 1963, hardcover with blue cloth boards in dust jacket, octavo, 221pp., illustrated in b&w. Book VG with mild wear to edges of boards and spine, bump to spine head that tears small bit of cloth at front joint, binding tight, previous owner's plate to front pastedown, otherwise text clean and unmarked. DJ VG with toning, rubbing, front flap price-clipped, now in archival mylar wrap.

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Bookseller: Common Crow Books (US)
Bookseller's Inventory #: B39279
Title: The Nature of Comets
Author: Richter, Nikolaus B.; Translated and Revised by Arthur Beer
Format/Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Used - Very Good
Jacket Condition: very good
Quantity Available: 1
Edition: First UK edition
Publisher: Methuen & Co
Place of Publication: London
Date Published: 1963
Keywords: Astronomy

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Tight: Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
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...
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....
Cloth: "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
Octavo: Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
VG: Very Good condition can describe a used book that does show some small signs of wear - but no tears - on either binding or...
Jacket: Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
Plate: Full page illustration or photograph. Plates are printed separately from the text of the book, and bound in at production. I.e.,...
Rubbing: Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.