Collins Clear Type Press, 1111. Hardcover. Acceptable. No Edition Noted. 512 pages. No dust jacket. Red cloth with black and white illustrations throughout. Heavy tanning to pages with heavier foxing and tanning to pastedowns and endpapers. Slight dog-eared pages throughout and major tanning to text block edges. Both hinges are cracked with exposed netting. Boards have visible rubbing and sunning with moderate bumping to corners. Fair crushing to spine ends and heavy sunning to spine.

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Bookseller: World of Rare Books (GB)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 1653313956LEE
Title: Journal of Researches During the Voyage of H.M.S. "Beagle"
Author: Charles Darwin
Format/Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Used - Acceptable
Quantity Available: 1
Publisher: Collins Clear Type Press

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Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:

Rubbing: Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
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....
Acceptable: A non-traditional book condition description that generally refers to a book in readable condition, although no standard exists...
Jacket: Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
Cracked: In reference to a hinge or a book's binding, means that the glue which holds the opposing leaves has allowed them to separate,...
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...
Fair: is a worn book that has complete text pages (including those with maps or plates) but may lack endpapers, half-title, etc....
Cloth: "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
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....