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American Hazard
by P.W. Rainier
- Used
- Acceptable
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Acceptable
- Seller
-
Goring-by-Sea, West Sussex, United Kingdom
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
John Murray, 1942. Hardcover. Acceptable. 1942. First Edition. 261 pages. No dust jacket. This is an ex-Library book. Blue cloth. Expected library inserts, stamps and inscriptions. Pages are moderately tanned and foxed throughout, heavier to endpapers and pastedowns. Cracking to gutters of a few pages with exposed binding. Minor dog-eared corners. Occasional thumb-marking present. Scuffed loss and red paper remnants to pastedowns. Binding is slightly shaky. Boards have moderate edge wear with bumping to corners and rubbing to surfaces. Soft crushing to spine ends. Moderate sunning to spine and edges. Book is forward leaning.
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Details
- Seller
- World of Rare Books
(GB)
- Seller's Inventory #
- 1636361994LSA
- Title
- American Hazard
- Author
- P.W. Rainier
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Acceptable
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- John Murray
- Date Published
- 1942
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
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Biblio member since 2009
Goring-by-Sea, West Sussex
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Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- Acceptable
- A non-traditional book condition description that generally refers to a book in readable condition, although no standard exists...
- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- 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....
- Foxed
- Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- 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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