The Transformations of Man
by Lewis Mumford
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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St. Louis, Missouri, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1956. Hardcover. Stated FIrst Edition. 5 x 7.5in. xviii. 249pp. Publisher's cloth boards. VERY GOOD in Good dust jacket protected in a removable archival cover. The book itself shows several small ink marks unobtrusively on the bottom and fore-edge, several numbers in ink on the back paste-down and endpaper, otherwise the binding is strong and tight, the text is clean and unmarked, and the boards remain bright and distinct. The dust jacket shows some creasing and closed tears, chipping of the spine, a small number on the back panel, otherwise is not price-clipped remaining distinct. As pictured.
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Details
- Bookseller
- North Books: Used & Rare (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- P30
- Title
- The Transformations of Man
- Author
- Lewis Mumford
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Harper & Brothers
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1956
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
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Glossary
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- 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...
- Publisher's cloth
- A hardcover book comprised of cloth over hard pasteboard boards. ...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Paste-down
- The paste-down is the portion of the endpaper that is glued to the inner boards of a hardback book. The paste-down forms an...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...