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The Retina
by S.L. Polyak
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine/Very Good +
- Seller
-
Waccabuc, New York, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
University of Chicago Press, 1941. Cloth. Near Fine/Very Good +. A surprisingly well-preserved copy of the 1941 1st edition of this exhaustive study of the retina. Tight, clean and Near Fine in a crisp, price-intact, VG+ to Near Fine dustjacket, with just a touch of very minor creasing and chipping along the edges and at the spine crown, and a bit of chipping to the tips. Thick quarto, 607 pgs. of text plus 100 figures at the rear. "The Anatomy and the Histology of the Retina in Man, Ape, Monkey, Including the Consideration of Visual Functions, the History of Physiological Optics, and the Histological Laboratory Technique"
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Details
- Bookseller
- Appledore Books, ABAA
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 23005
- Title
- The Retina
- Author
- S.L. Polyak
- Format/Binding
- Cloth
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good +
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- University of Chicago Press
- Date Published
- 1941
- Keywords
- rare medicine, rare medical history, rare optometry, rare opthamology, rare ocular history
Terms of Sale
Appledore Books, ABAA
All books are offered subject to prior sale. Materials are returnable within 1 week of receipt provided prior notice is given.
About the Seller
Appledore Books, ABAA
Biblio member since 2005
Waccabuc, New York
About Appledore Books, ABAA
Buy and sell - rare, unusual and antiquarian - art, photography, literature, scholarly, sports, childrens, bindings.
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Crisp
- A term often used to indicate a book's new-like condition. Indicates that the hinges are not loosened. A book described as crisp...
- 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...
- Fine
- A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...
- 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....
- Quarto
- The term quarto is used to describe a page or book size. A printed sheet is made with four pages of text on each side, and the...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
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