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The Secret of the Golden Flower: A Chinese Book of Life
by WILHELM, RICHARD (TRANS); JUNG, C. J. (COMMENTARY)
- Used
- good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good/No Jacket
- Seller
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Hay on Wye, Powys, United Kingdom
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About This Item
1931. . Hardcover. Good/No Jacket . No dustwrapper. Large 8vo. - First Editon Thus - Some bubbling to cloth - Covers worn and rubbed - Spine ends chipped w/ some parts missing - Corners bumped and crushed w/ boards exposed - 6cm split along rear joint from spine tail - Gilt Chinese characters to front chipped and faded - Edges of text block heavily tanned - Some pencil marks to margins - Times Book Club sticker to rear pastedown endpaper - Guttering open and a little torn between pages 48/49 and pages 128/9 - Endpapers and content tanned and foxed throughout w/ some staining - Numerous faint bookseller marks to endpapers w/ several previous owner's names in ink to front paper, some of which have been crossed out - MArgins toned w/ some staining - Book ow/ solid and clean - ix/151 pages
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- Seller
- Green Ink Booksellers
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- Seller's Inventory #
- 636153
- Title
- The Secret of the Golden Flower: A Chinese Book of Life
- Author
- WILHELM, RICHARD (TRANS); JUNG, C. J. (COMMENTARY)
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Date Published
- 1931
- Size
- No dustwrapper
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
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Hay on Wye, Powys
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Glossary
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- Tail
- The heel of the spine.
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- 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...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- Dustwrapper
- Also known as book jacket, dust cover, or dust wrapper, a dust jacket is a protective and decorative cover for a book that is...
- Foxed
- Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...
- 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....
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