The River Jordan: Being an Illustrated Account of Earth's Most Storied River
by Nelson Glueck
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Acceptable/Acceptable
- Seller
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Goring-by-Sea, West Sussex, United Kingdom
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About This Item
Lutterworth Press, 1946. Hardcover. Acceptable/Acceptable. 1946. First English Edition. 268 pages. Pictorial dust jacket over green cloth. Contains black and white plates throughout. Pages are moderately tanned and foxed throughout. Thumb-marking present. Annotations to rear endpaper. Notable creasing to gutter. Boards have moderate edge-wear with bumping to corners and rubbing to surfaces. Light crushing to spine ends. Some tanning to spine and edges. Dents to edges. Water staining to boards. Textblock is shaky. Unclipped jacket has moderate edgewear with chips, tears and creasing. Notable tanning to spine. Foxing overall. Visible rubbing to surfaces.
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- Bookseller
- World of Rare Books (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1643028709MHP
- Title
- The River Jordan: Being an Illustrated Account of Earth's Most Storied River
- Author
- Nelson Glueck
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Acceptable/Acceptable
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Lutterworth Press
- Date Published
- 1946
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- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Gutter
- The inside margin of a book, connecting the pages to the joints near the binding.
- 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....
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- Foxed
- Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- 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...