Oxford At The Clarendon Press, 1953. Hardcover. Good/Acceptable. 1953. Reprinted. 200 pages. Laminated pictorial dust jacket over blue cloth. Pages with some foxing and tanning, particularly to endpapers and textblock edges. Binding remains firm. Some underlining. Boards have moderate shelf wear with mild bumping and fraying to corners and crushing and fraying to spine ends. All surfaces tanned and sunned, particularly spine. Clipped jacket has heavy wear with tears, chipping and creasing. All surfaces heavily tanned, particularly spine. Some water marks to spine.

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Bookseller: World of Rare Books (GB)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 1695977480ALK
Title: Portrait of Socrates
Author: R.W. Livingstone
Format/Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Used - Good/Acceptable
Quantity Available: 1
Publisher: Oxford At The Clarendon Press
Date Published: 1953

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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...
Sunned: Damage done to a book cover or dust jacket caused by exposure to direct sunlight. Very strong fluorescent light can cause slight...
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...
Cloth: "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
Jacket: Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
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...