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Widening Horizons - Man's Quest to Understand the Structure of the Universe
by Kopal, Zdenek
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good +/Very Good -
- ISBN 10
- 0800883209
- ISBN 13
- 9780800883201
- Seller
-
Canton, Georgia, United States
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About This Item
New York: Taplinger Publishing Company, 1971. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Very Good +/Very Good -. Dark blue cloth with gilt lettering on spine; some rubbing of corners and head/foot of spine; covers are lightly soiled; some erased pencil markings on top right of free front endpaper; otherwise book interior is clean and tight; 8 vo; 176 pages; dustjacket is protected by mylar wrapper; dust jacket is rubbed at edges, and has minor chipping at spine ends; dust jacket has a crease at upper right front corner and is NOT price clipped
0.86#; P3; A; MS6.95; OD-051219; C-17; 10/21/036; Old #000156;
0.86#; P3; A; MS6.95; OD-051219; C-17; 10/21/036; Old #000156;
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- Bookseller
- Charing Cross Road Booksellers
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 20070606
- Title
- Widening Horizons - Man's Quest to Understand the Structure of the Universe
- Author
- Kopal, Zdenek
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good +
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good -
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition, First Printing
- ISBN 10
- 0800883209
- ISBN 13
- 9780800883201
- Publisher
- Taplinger Publishing Company
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1971
- Keywords
- ASTRONOMY HISTORY JUVENILE NONFICTION SCIENCE
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Charing Cross Road Booksellers
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Canton, Georgia
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- Price Clipped
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- Cloth
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- 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...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- 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...
- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- 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...
- 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....
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