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Railways (The Home University Library of Modern Knowledge Series)
by Wood, W. V.; Stamp, Sir Josiah
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- Good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good/Fair
- Seller
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Kidderminster, Worcestershire, United Kingdom
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About This Item
First edition. Chapter 1 by Sir Josiah Stamp, chapters 2-10 by W. V. Wood. Blue cloth with dark blue titles to front and spine. Top edge blue. Binding firm. Splits to cloth at head of spine, top and bottom edges of boards worn. Light foxing to text block edges. Content generally clean and bright. Jacket unclipped (priced at 2s net on spine), large tear to top of front panel, chipping to spine ends, small tears and creasing to edges, rubbing to spine edges. Not ex-library. No labels, names, notes nor inscriptions. 252 pp + 4 pp list of titles in series. All books are individually described. All overseas orders are sent airmail by Royal Mail International Tracked.
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- Bookseller
- Soin2Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 002906
- Title
- Railways (The Home University Library of Modern Knowledge Series)
- Author
- Wood, W. V.; Stamp, Sir Josiah
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- Fair
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Publisher
- Thornton Butterworth, Limited
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1928
- Pages
- 252
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
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Kidderminster, Worcestershire
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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...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- 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...
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- 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...
- 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....
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