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An Introduction to Russian History and Culture
by Ivar Spector
- Used
- Acceptable
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Acceptable
- Seller
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Goring-by-Sea, West Sussex, United Kingdom
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
D. Van Nostrand Company, INC., 1949. Hardcover. Acceptable. 1949. No Edition Noted. 454 pages. No dust jacket. This is an ex-Library book. Brown cloth with a photographic black and white frontis and plates throughout. Expected library inserts, stamps and inscriptions. Minor tanning to pages with heavier tanning to pastedowns and endpapers. Pencil inscriptions to endpapers and pastedowns and visible foxing, ink marks and tanning to text block edges. Both hinges are cracked with exposed netting and cracks to guttering with exposed netting. Book is shaky. Boards have heavy rubbing and edge wear. Major bumping to corners and fair crushing to spine ends. Major rubbing to spine and fraying to cloth at corners and spine ends.
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Details
- Seller
- World of Rare Books
(GB)
- Seller's Inventory #
- 1654009780LEE
- Title
- An Introduction to Russian History and Culture
- Author
- Ivar Spector
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Acceptable
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- D. Van Nostrand Company, INC.
- Date Published
- 1949
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
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Goring-by-Sea, West Sussex
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Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- 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....
- 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,...
- Fair
- is a worn book that has complete text pages (including those with maps or plates) but may lack endpapers, half-title, etc....
- Acceptable
- A non-traditional book condition description that generally refers to a book in readable condition, although no standard exists...
- 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
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- 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.
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
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