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THE STORY OF ATLANTA UNIVERSITY: A CENTURY OF SERVICE 1865-1965
by Clarence A. Bacote
- Used
- Signed
- Condition
- Very Good -/Very Good -
- Seller
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Chamblee, Georgia, United States
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About This Item
US: Atlanta University, 1969. Hardback. Very Good -/Very Good -. Signed and inscribed by the author at first free endpaper. Red cloth over boards with gilt titling to spine. Pages are clean and unmarked. Text block has spots of soiling to lower edge, two faint spots of soiling to fore edge, and light shelf wear to top edge. Endpages have light tanning to edges. Boards have small spot of glue residue to top edge of front cover and rear cover, corners and ends of spine slightly bumped and lightly rubbed. Binding is tight, front board is cocked. Dust jacket has rubbing to front cover at title likely from a previous piece of tape, sunning to spine, and creasing, rubbing and light chipping to edges, corners and ends of spine; closed tear to lower edge of front cover and rear cover. Dust jacket is covered in a protective mylar jacket.
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- Bookseller
- Atlanta Vintage Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 62048
- Title
- THE STORY OF ATLANTA UNIVERSITY: A CENTURY OF SERVICE 1865-1965
- Author
- Clarence A. Bacote
- Format/Binding
- Hardback
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good -
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good -
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Atlanta University
- Place of Publication
- US
- Date Published
- 1969
- Keywords
- Georgia History
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About the Seller
Atlanta Vintage Books
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Chamblee, Georgia
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Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Inscribed
- When a book is described as being inscribed, it indicates that a short note written by the author or a previous owner has been...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- 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...
- Cocked
- Refers to a state where the spine of a book is lightly "twisted" in such a way that the front and rear boards of a book do not...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- 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...
- Fore Edge
- The portion of a book that is opposite the spine. That part of a book which faces the wall when shelved in a traditional...
- 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....
- 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...
- 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....
- 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...
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