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Walks and Talks in the Geological Field
by Alexander Winchell
- Used
- good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good
- Seller
-
Goring-by-Sea, West Sussex, United Kingdom
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About This Item
Flood and Vincent, 1894. Hardcover. Good. 1894. No Edition Remarks. 353 pages. No dust jacket. Blue cloth with black design. Black and white illustration plates and diagrams throughout including illustration frontispiece. Pages bright and clear with slight tanning and foxing, particularly to textblock edges and endpapers. Slight creasing to some pages. Previous owner's name and minor annotations to front pastedown. Some marginalia. Binding remains firm. Boards have heavy shelf wear with bumping and fraying to corners, crushing to spine ends and rubbing and marking all over. Spine sunned and with some water marking.
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Details
- Bookseller
- World of Rare Books
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1692622093ALK
- Title
- Walks and Talks in the Geological Field
- Author
- Alexander Winchell
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Flood and Vincent
- Date Published
- 1894
Terms of Sale
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Goring-by-Sea, West Sussex
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Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- 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...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- 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....
- Marginalia
- Marginalia, in brief, are notes written in the margins, or beside the text of a book by a previous owner. This is very...
- 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...
- Sunned
- Damage done to a book cover or dust jacket caused by exposure to direct sunlight. Very strong fluorescent light can cause slight...
- 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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