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The Landed Interest and the Supply of Food
by James Caird
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very good/Near fine
- Seller
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Denver, Colorado, United States
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About This Item
Augustus M. Kelley, 1967. Hardcover. Very good/Near fine. Fifth edition. With introduction by G. E. Mingay. Dust jacket is protected in a mylar sleeve. Mild wear and chipping around the edges o jacket with two small discolored areas on bottom right corner of front cover. Ex-libris sticker on front endpaper. Binding is tight and spine is square. Pages are clean and unmarked. Mild rubbing to edges of boards, otherwise they're straight and clean. Purple marker streak, possibly a remainder mark, on bottom exterior edge of text block.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Sparrow's Bookshop
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 05648
- Title
- The Landed Interest and the Supply of Food
- Author
- James Caird
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very good
- Jacket Condition
- Near fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Augustus M. Kelley
- Date Published
- 1967
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About the Seller
Sparrow's Bookshop
Biblio member since 2021
Denver, Colorado
About Sparrow's Bookshop
Sparrow's Bookshop is a Denver based vintage & rare bookstore specializing in hard-to-find items, unique titles and first editions. Member IOBA.
Glossary
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.
- Chipping
- A defect in which small pieces are missing from the edges; fraying or small pieces of paper missing the edge of a paperback, or...
- Fine
- A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...
- G
- Good describes the average used and worn book that has all pages or leaves present. Any defects must be noted. (as defined by AB...
- 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....
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- 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...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- 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....
- Remainder Mark
- Usually an ink marking of some sort which indicates that the book was designated a remainder. In most cases, it can be found on...
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