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The Story Of The Heavens
by Robert Stawell Ball
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Poor. A binding copy. Heavily bruised at the head, tail and corners of the boards with fraying to the leather at the spine ends,
- Seller
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Peasedown St. John, Somerset, United Kingdom
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About This Item
London, Paris & Melbourne: Cassell & Company, 1897. Hardback [½ Leather] (No Dust Wrapper.). Poor. A binding copy. Heavily bruised at the head, tail and corners of the boards with fraying to the leather at the spine ends, more fraying to the leading edge of both boards. Edges of the text block lightly tanned. Previous owners' inscription to the head of the title page. Text complete, clean and tight but a little age-tanned.. Hardback [½ Leather]. Physically 9¼” x 6” (1.8 kg); (xix) 551pp; Index; 4th, revised edition. Illustrated by way of: Black & White Photographs; Colour Plates; Black & White Plates; Diagrams; || The book is on my shelves and will be carefully packed and posted from the pastoral paradise of Peasedown St. John, Bath, by a real bookseller in a real book shop - with my personal guarantee and my beady eye on the Consumer Contracts Regulations. REMEMBER! Buying my copy means the bookshop Jack Russells get their supper! My Book #168889|| Condition:
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Details
- Bookseller
- BookLovers of Bath
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 168889
- Title
- The Story Of The Heavens
- Author
- Robert Stawell Ball
- Format/Binding
- Hardback [½ Leather] (No Dust Wrapper.)
- Book Condition
- Used - Poor. A binding copy. Heavily bruised at the head, tail and corners of the boards with fraying to the leather at the spine ends,
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- London, Paris & Melbourne: Cassell & Company
- Date Published
- 1897
- Keywords
- solar corona lunar crater refracting telescope great nebula orion andromeda sun spots granules earth’s movement orbits giant planets velocity motion transit venus light orbit encke’s comet point shooting stars shoal meteors bear pole star globul
Terms of Sale
BookLovers of Bath
As a distance seller based in England, I am required to abide by the terms of the "Distance Selling Act", details of which are freely available. This ensures that you have the highest degree of protection when purchasing from me. Alongside that, I prefer to treat my customers in the manner that I expect to be treated; my guarantee is complete satisfaction or your money back - I aim to please, not just for the one book sale but to ensure that should you require another book, another time that my name against it means it gets your consideration.
About the Seller
BookLovers of Bath
Biblio member since 2006
Peasedown St. John, Somerset
About BookLovers of Bath
BookLovers of Bath is set in the pastoral idyll of Peasedown St. John in Somerset (God's Own Country) in the south west of England. My wife and I owned the village Post Office until the modern world caught up with us in 2014. At that point I converted the premises to a small book shop, Fact or Fable, with a stock of around 4,000 titles in stock. I've been selling books worldwide since 1997 and rather hope to get the hang of it shortly…
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Poor
- A book with significant wear and faults. A poor condition book is still a reading copy with the full text still readable. Any...
- 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....
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Title Page
- A page at the front of a book which may contain the title of the book, any subtitles, the authors, contributors, editors, 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...
- Tail
- The heel of the spine.
- 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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