The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Volume II
by Gibbon, Edward
- Used
- poor
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Poor/No Dust Jacket
- Seller
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Milwaukee , Wisconsin, United States
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About This Item
New York: American Book Exchange, 1880 631pp. Spine is cocked and shaken. Boards have scuffs, scratches, light paint stains. Tips and spine ends are heavily bumped and heavily rubbed. Spine head is heavily chipped. Top edge of text block is heavily dust stained. Hinges are partially open. Hinges are weak. Former owner bookplate and sticker inside front board. Inside rear board has a long horizontal glue bubble causing indentations to the pages. May have other flaws. . Hardcover. Poor/No Dust Jacket.
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- Bookseller
- Recycled Records and Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 30948
- Title
- The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Volume II
- Author
- Gibbon, Edward
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Poor
- Jacket Condition
- No Dust Jacket
- Publisher
- American Book Exchange
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1880
- Bookseller catalogs
- History: Ancient;
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Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Bookplate
- Highly sought after by some collectors, a book plate is an inscribed or decorative device that identifies the owner, or former...
- 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....
- 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...
- Shaken
- A hardcover in which the text block is loose, but still attached to the binding.
- 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....