The Play of Animals
by Karl Groos (Preface and an Appendix by J. Mark Baldwin)
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good Plus
- Seller
-
Milton, Vermont, United States
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About This Item
NY: D. Appleton and Company, 1898. Reprint. Hardcover. Good Plus. This is an antiquarian ex-library copy of this classic. Blue cloth, paper spine label, rubbing to edges, extremities, spine joints with some loss of cloth at spine head; overall clean, small binding lean, o/w a well bound copy with covers firmly attached. Library labels on front paste-down and flyleaf pages, partially removed pocked on the rear paste-down page; library stamp on title page, Preface page and last page; with inked numbers written on the copyright page, no stamping to text block edges. Short tear to bottom edge of Authors Preface page. Otherwise the book is clean and unmarked with still bright paper. Xxii, 341 pages.]
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- Seller
- North Country Books
(US)
- Seller's Inventory #
- 13006
- Title
- The Play of Animals
- Author
- Karl Groos (Preface and an Appendix by J. Mark Baldwin)
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good Plus
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Reprint
- Publisher
- D. Appleton and Company
- Place of Publication
- NY
- Date Published
- 1898
- Bookseller catalogs
- Science;
Terms of Sale
North Country Books
30 day return guarantee, with full refund including shipping costs for up to 30 days after delivery if an item arrives misdescribed or damaged.
About the Seller
North Country Books
Biblio member since 2008
Milton, Vermont
About North Country Books
General used, collectible and antiquarian books. Also paper, ephemera and posters. I am now in my 14th year of full-time book selling.
Glossary
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- Spine Label
- The paper or leather descriptive tag attached to the spine of the book, most commonly providing the title and author of the...
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- O/W
- An abbreviation for otherwise
- Reprint
- Any printing of a book which follows the original edition. By definition, a reprint is not a first edition.
- 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....
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Copyright page
- The page in a book that describes the lineage of that book, typically including the book's author, publisher, date of...
- Paste-down
- The paste-down is the portion of the endpaper that is glued to the inner boards of a hardback book. The paste-down forms an...
- Title Page
- A page at the front of a book which may contain the title of the book, any subtitles, the authors, contributors, editors, the...
- 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...
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