A Gentle Cynic : Being a Translation of the Book of Koheleth
by Morris Jastrow
- Used
- Acceptable
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Acceptable
- Seller
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Goring-by-Sea, West Sussex, United Kingdom
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About This Item
Lippincott, 1919. Hardcover. Acceptable. 1919. No Edition Remarks. 254 pages. No dust jacket. Illustrated brown cloth. Moderate tanning to pages with heavier foxing and tanning to pastedowns and endpapers. Newspaper clipping and pen inscriptions to front endpaper and heavier foxing and tanning to text block edges. Both hinges are cracked with exposed netting and cracks to guttering with exposed netting. Binding is loose. Boards have visible rubbing and sticker to front. Moderate bumping to corners and heavier crushing to spine ends. Major sunning to spine and fraying to cloth at corners and spine ends.
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- Bookseller
- World of Rare Books (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1634748976GEO
- Title
- A Gentle Cynic : Being a Translation of the Book of Koheleth
- Author
- Morris Jastrow
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Acceptable
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Lippincott
- Date Published
- 1919
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- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- Text Block
- Most simply the inside pages of a book. More precisely, the block of paper formed by the cut and stacked pages of a book....
- 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...
- Cracked
- In reference to a hinge or a book's binding, means that the glue which holds the opposing leaves has allowed them to separate,...
- Acceptable
- A non-traditional book condition description that generally refers to a book in readable condition, although no standard exists...
- 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....
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...