The Historians' History of the World - Vol. XIV
by Henry Smith Williams Ed
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- Good
- Hardcover
- Condition
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Goring-by-Sea, West Sussex, United Kingdom
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About This Item
The Times, 1907. Hardcover. Good. 1907. No Edition Remarks. 661 pages. No dust jacket. Half bound brown leather with green cloth covered boards and gilt lettering to spine. Black and white illustrations throughout. Colour map at rear. Black and white portrait frontispiece. Pages with some foxing and tanning, particularly to endpapers and textblock edges. Binding remains firm. Boards have heavy shelf wear with bumping and rubbing to corners. Spine heavily worn and deteriorating. Gilt lettering slightly dulled. Some marks and staining to surfaces.
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- Bookseller
- World of Rare Books (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
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- Title
- The Historians' History of the World - Vol. XIV
- Author
- Henry Smith Williams Ed
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- The Times
- Date Published
- 1907
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- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Half Bound
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- 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....
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...