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Surnames of Scotland: Their Origin, Meaning, and History
by Black, George F
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good Minus/Very Good Minus
- ISBN 10
- 0871041723
- ISBN 13
- 9780871041722
- Seller
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Sorn, East Ayrshire, United Kingdom
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About This Item
New York Public Library, 1999-06-01. Hardcover. Very Good Minus/Very Good Minus. 9x6x2. 838pp. (blue spine) large 8vo. sized. 1989. Ninth printing. A very good minus, tight hardback copy in similar jacket. Original publisher's burgundy cloth - gilt embossed to the spine. No inscriptions. A little spotting to the endpapers and to the fore-edges. A little bowing to the cloth boards - not heavy in any way. The jacket has not been price-clipped. It has some spotting to verso. A 3.5cm long tear has been expertly repaired to the head of the front panel and an open short tear with slight loss to the tail of the spine. Some light rubbing to the head of the spine of the jacket and to all four corners. PLEASE NOTE that this jacket has a different design to it than the one in the library photograph.
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- Bookseller
- Trumpington Fine Books Limited (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 023522
- Title
- Surnames of Scotland: Their Origin, Meaning, and History
- Author
- Black, George F
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good Minus
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good Minus
- Quantity Available
- 1
- ISBN 10
- 0871041723
- ISBN 13
- 9780871041722
- Publisher
- New York Public Library
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1999-06-01
- Size
- 9x6x2
- X weight
- 46 oz
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Trumpington Fine Books Limited
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- Tail
- The heel of the spine.
- Cloth
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- Spine
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- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Rubbing
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- Verso
- The page bound on the left side of a book, opposite to the recto page.
- Gilt
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- Jacket
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