Great Inventions (Smithsonian Scientific Series, Vol 12)
by Charles Greeley Abbot
- Used
- Fine
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Fine/Very Good
- Seller
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Brattleboro, Vermont, United States
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About This Item
Fine HC in Very Good slipcase. Red leatherette over boards with green Smithsonian device on front cover and gilt line and torch decorations on front cover and spine; textblock untrimmed at fore and tail edges; watermarked laid paper. Bright, clean covers and spine; lightly dust spotted on text block top edge; tightly bound; crisp, clean interior - many leaves unopened at tail edge. Slipcase is green leather-grain paper over boards; clean, lightly scuffed. 8vo, 383 pp; biblio, index; many illustrations.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Madden Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- A02619
- Title
- Great Inventions (Smithsonian Scientific Series, Vol 12)
- Author
- Charles Greeley Abbot
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution
- Date Published
- 1934
- Bookseller catalogs
- History, Science, Technology;
Terms of Sale
Madden Books
30 day return guarantee, with full refund including shipping costs for up to 30 days after delivery if an item arrives misdescribed or damaged.
About the Seller
Madden Books
Biblio member since 2011
Brattleboro, Vermont
About Madden Books
I am a book collector and seller with many years experience. My particular areas of interest are politics, history, law, economics, labor and sociology. I also collect and sell Vermont and New England books, pamphlets, ephemera and magazines. I have a large selection of mysteries and detective books. I have general stock of literature, sciences, arts, world and regional politics & history.
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- Tail
- The heel of the spine.
- Leaves
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- Device
- Especially for older books, a printer's device refers to an identifying mark, also sometimes called a printer's mark, on the...
- Biblio
- The Greek root for a variety of words referring to the book, such as bibliography, bibliomania, etc. Also, one of the world's...
- Text Block
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- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- Unopened
- A state in which all or some of the pages of a book have not been separated from the adjacent pages, caused by a traditional...
- 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...
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