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ASTRONOMY IN PREHISTORIC BRITAIN AND IRELAND by Ruggles, Clive
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New Haven: Yale University Press. Fine in Fine dust jacket 1999. Hardcover. 285 pp. Index. Illustrated. FINE condition book and dustjacket. Blue hardcovers quite clean, and bright, faint rubbing to corners. Interior new: crisp, clean, and tight. Dustjacket has faint edgewear at corners, else new. A nice copy.; 4to 11" - 13" tall .
rubbing : Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually
used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket. dust jacket : A protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps around the binding of a book. tight : Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use. crisp : A term often used to indicate a book's new-like condition. Indicates that the hinges are not loosened. A book described as crisp will not have 'well-read' pages, i.e., where the book will naturally open to certain pages or sections. 4to : Or quarto. A term used generally to describe the approximate size of a book, a book that is about 10" to 12" tall and roughly squarish in shape. The term is based on the size of paper traditionally used by book printers which has been folded and cut into 16 pages.
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