I.C.S Reference Library: A Series of Textbooks Prepared for the Students of the International Correspondence Schools and Containing in Permanent Form the Instruction Papers, Examination Questions, and Keys used in their Various Courses. Stationary Gas Engines, Gas-Engine Details, Lubrication and Cooling Arrangements, Stationary Oil Engines, Power-Gas Producers, Stationary Engine Management, Troubles and Remedies
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International Correspondence Schools Ltd 1907. Super octavo, very dark navy buckram boards, blind embossed to give impression of half binding, black lettering to spine, page edges stained red, patterned eps, vi+approx 354pp+xxi appdendices, illus, 1x folding diagram, VG- (light soiling to boards, moderate rubbing to spine, slight chipping with loss to spine extrems, light foxing throughout, owners contact details to prelims, owners signature to rear pages, light fading to page edges, gutter cracked approx halfway through but binding is sound)
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- I.C.S Reference Library: A Series of Textbooks Prepared for the Students of the International Correspondence Schools and Containing in Permanent Form the Instruction Papers, Examination Questions, and Keys used in their Various Courses. Stationary Gas Engines, Gas-Engine Details, Lubrication and Cooling Arrangements, Stationary Oil Engines, Power-Gas Producers, Stationary Engine Management, Troubles and Remedies
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- International Correspondence Schools Ltd 1907
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- engineering study guide engines power gas oil
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- Rubbing
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- Chipping
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- Cracked
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- Gutter
- The inside margin of a book, connecting the pages to the joints near the binding.
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- Buckram
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- Edges
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- Spine
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