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European Clocks
by Uresova, Libuse
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- VG++/F/VG+
- ISBN 10
- 1850520283
- ISBN 13
- 9781850520283
- Seller
-
Salisbury, Wiltshire, United Kingdom
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About This Item
HARDBACK SHIPPED FROM THE UK* Edition: 1st. Thus. * Impression:1st.* Date of Publication: 1986* Publisher: Peerage Books.* Binding and cover condition: Black cloth covered boards with white titles to spine and face. No bumps or rubs, FINE.* Jacket condition: NOT PRICE CLIPPED, showing shelf price of £9.95, colour photo-illustrated jacket showing a mantle clock against a green background with white titles to spine and face, minimal shelf wear to top & bottom edges & to head and tail of spine. Now in clear un-attached protective wrapper. VG+.* Contents condition: PRIVATE COPY NOT EX-LIBRARY, clean, crisp, tight and bright. No inscriptions or annotations, seems lightly read. Minimal age to page margins & edges otherwise no visible faults. VG++.* Illustrations: Copiously illustrated with colour and black and white photos throughout.* Pages: 225 pp. text. xvi pp. Bibliography, lists, indices & blank pages at rear.* Product description:- Describes the history of time pieces from the primitive sundial to the modern watch, focusing on the wheel work clock and its development from the ornate clock of seventeenth-century France to the alarm clocks of the 1900's. This is a NEAR FINE text copy of the 1st thus with minimal age & shelf wear reducing it to VG+. Kadecka, S.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Cocksparrow Books
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 8902
- Title
- European Clocks
- Author
- Uresova, Libuse
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - VG++/F/VG+
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition Thus.
- ISBN 10
- 1850520283
- ISBN 13
- 9781850520283
- Publisher
- Littlehampton Book Services Ltd
- Place of Publication
- London UK. 241
- Date Published
- 1986-05-01
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About the Seller
Cocksparrow Books
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Salisbury, Wiltshire
About Cocksparrow Books
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Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Bumps
- Indicates that the affected part of the book has been impacted in such a way so as to cause a flattening, indention, or light...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- 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...
- 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....
- 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...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Fine
- A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...
- 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...
- 1st Thus
- This indicates that this is not the first appearance of a book in print, but that this is the first appearance in a...
- 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...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Tail
- The heel of the spine.
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