THE TAIHEIKI: A CHRONICLE OF MEDIEVAL JAPAN
by McCullough, Helen Craig [Translated with an Introduction and Notes by]
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- Hardcover
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About This Item
New York: Columbia University Press, 1959. Hardcover. Octavo, xii, xlix, 401 pages. In Very Good condition with a Good plus dust jacket. Dust jacket protected with a mylar covering. Light soiling to rear with few crinkles to the edges. Boards have slight humping to head/tail spine edges. Text block head edge colored red with slight age toning to fore/tail edges and slight paperclip mark to verso to half title page and to verso to frontispiece. Frontispiece. Illustrated. 1370240. FP New Rockville Stock.
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- Bookseller
- Second Story Books, ABAA (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1370240
- Title
- THE TAIHEIKI: A CHRONICLE OF MEDIEVAL JAPAN
- Author
- McCullough, Helen Craig [Translated with an Introduction and Notes by]
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1959
- Keywords
- Japan
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- Text Block
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- Spine
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- Verso
- The page bound on the left side of a book, opposite to the recto page.
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- 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...
- Half Title
- The blank front page which appears just prior to the title page, and typically contains only the title of the book, although, at...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- 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...