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Wonderful Balloon Ascents: or, The Conquest of the Skies: A History of Balloons and Balloon Voyages
by Marion, F
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- Very Good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good
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Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States
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About This Item
London: Cassell, Petter, and Galpin, 1870. Hardcover. Very good. 7 x 5 inches, half midnight blue calf and charcoal pebbled cloth boards, handsome gilt decorated spine, raised bands, leather title labels, good to very good, light wear to binding, discoloration to edges of cloth boards, 218 pp, well illustrated with engravings, 36 pp. publisher's catalog at rear, preliinary pages show bit of dampstaining to borders, but the text seems quite unaffected.
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- Bookseller
- Common Crow Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- H35731
- Title
- Wonderful Balloon Ascents: or, The Conquest of the Skies: A History of Balloons and Balloon Voyages
- Author
- Marion, F
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Cassell, Petter, and Galpin
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1870
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- 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...
- Calf
- Calf or calf hide is a common form of leather binding. Calf binding is naturally a light brown but there are ways to treat the...
- Raised Band(s)
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- 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...
- Spine
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- Cloth
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- Pebbled
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