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STREETS OF MANILA
by Luning B. Ira
- Used
- Good
- Condition
- Good/Good
- Seller
-
Chamblee, Georgia, United States
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About This Item
GCF Books, 1977. Hardback. Good/Good. Ex-Library. Navy textured paper-covered boards with silver-stamped title to spine. Top corners curled throughout and previous library stamp to top edge of half-title page; otherwise, pages are clean and unmarked. Text block has light shelf wear with light soiling to fore edge and top edge. Previous checkout sleeve pasted to rear pastedown. Boards have sunning to top edge, lower edge, and tail of spine, heavy bumping to top corners and headcap, and previous library sticker to tail; bumping and rubbing to lower edge. Binding is sound, spine is cocked. Dust jacket has shelf wear with heavy creasing to edges, corners and ends of spine, creasing and heavy rubbing to laminate at fore edge of front cover, and square cut from tail of spine. Dust jacket is covered in a protective mylar jacket.
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Details
- Seller
- Atlanta Vintage Books
(US)
- Seller's Inventory #
- 62019
- Title
- STREETS OF MANILA
- Author
- Luning B. Ira
- Format/Binding
- Hardback
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- GCF Books
- Date Published
- 1977
- Keywords
- Asian History
Terms of Sale
Atlanta Vintage Books
30 day return guarantee, with full refund including shipping costs for up to 30 days after delivery if an item arrives misdescribed or damaged.
About the Seller
Atlanta Vintage Books
Biblio member since 2007
Chamblee, Georgia
About Atlanta Vintage Books
Welcome to Atlanta Vintage Books, serving book lovers locally and worldwide for over 30 years. Our 5,000 square foot book store houses over 70,000 vintage, rare and out of print books. You'll be greeted with a smile when you enter but left alone as you browse. Our staff is friendly, helpful and knowledgeable. Special orders are happily accommodated, as hard-to-find and out-of-print editions are a specialty. Our store is light and airy with plate glass windows letting in plenty of natural light and wonderfully decorated with antique display cases, old barrister bookcases, and wood book shelves. The wide aisles and scattered seating make browsing a joy. You'll wonder where the time went.
Glossary
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- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- 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....
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- 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.
- 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....
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
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