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Error and Deception In Science : Essays on Biological Aspects of Life
by Rostand, Jean
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- Very Good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good/Good
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About This Item
London, UK: Hutchinson & Co, 1960. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. 192pp. Black cloth-covered boards, silver titles on spine. Bumped spine ends, corners and board edges. Cocked. Text block edges starting to fox. Bookseller's label on front paste down. Free endpapers starting to fox. Internally neat, clean, bright and tight. Paper dust jacket sun faded, has two 2cm closed tears front top, very light shelf wear, chipping to edges, mirrors book damage, price unclipped. 12mo. The author presents six essays on a common theme - the desire to plumb the depths of certain biological aspects of life. Translated from the French by A J Pomerans.
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- Bookseller
- BookAddiction
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 012353
- Title
- Error and Deception In Science : Essays on Biological Aspects of Life
- Author
- Rostand, Jean
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Hutchinson & Co
- Place of Publication
- London, UK
- Date Published
- 1960
- Size
- 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- Science, Ethics, Deception, Fakes,
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- 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...
- 12mo
- A duodecimo is a book approximately 7 by 4.5 inches in size, or similar in size to a contemporary mass market paperback. Also...
- 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....
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Cocked
- Refers to a state where the spine of a book is lightly "twisted" in such a way that the front and rear boards of a book do not...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Shelf Wear
- Shelf wear (shelfwear) describes damage caused over time to a book by placing and removing a book from a shelf. This damage is...
- 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....
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