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THE EMPEROR ROMANUS LECAPENUS AND HIS REIGN: A STUDY OF TENTH-CENTURY BYZANTIUM
by Runciman, Steven
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Rockville, Maryland, United States
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About This Item
London: Cambridge University Press, 1929. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo, vi, 275 pages. In Good plus condition with a Good dust jacket. Dust jacket protected with a mylar covering, price clipped front flap. Spine deep yellowish beige with blue lettering. Moderate plus age toning exteriorly with several instances of chipping to head/tail edges. Boards have slight rubbing wear to head/tail edges with bumped tail fore corners and light pucker to front head edge. Text block has modest age toning and offset toning to the end papers. Illustrated. Fold out map at rear. First Edition. 1370885. FP New Rockville Stock.
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- Bookseller
- Second Story Books, ABAA
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1370885
- Title
- THE EMPEROR ROMANUS LECAPENUS AND HIS REIGN: A STUDY OF TENTH-CENTURY BYZANTIUM
- Author
- Runciman, Steven
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1929
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About the Seller
Second Story Books, ABAA
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Rockville, Maryland
About Second Story Books, ABAA
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Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- 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....
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- 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...
- Chipping
- A defect in which small pieces are missing from the edges; fraying or small pieces of paper missing the edge of a paperback, or...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Tail
- The heel of the spine.
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- 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....
- Offset
- A technique of printing where the inked image or text is ...
- Price Clipped
- When a book is described as price-clipped, it indicates that the portion of the dust jacket flap that has the publisher's...
- 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...
- New
- A new book is a book previously not circulated to a buyer. Although a new book is typically free of any faults or defects, "new"...
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