MEN OF THE OLD STONE AGE their environment, life and art
by OSBORN, Henry Fairfield
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good+ for Age/No Jacket
- Seller
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Tunbridge Wells , Kent, United Kingdom
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About This Item
London: G.Bell and Sons, 1923. 3rd ed. (1st-1915) . Blue Cloth. Good+ for Age/No Jacket. 15.5 Cms x 23.5 Cms. Pub. in U.S. by Scribner's, UK editions apparently simultaneous with these. f/piece with tissue guard (impression of Neanderthal man)+xxviii+559+unf.map, 7 further plates, 2 col., ex-pagination, 275 text ills.; prev.owner's gilt label top fr. pastedown, pencil sig. to half-title which resists easy erasure, thin gutter opening between half-title and f/piece, otherwise internally clean, tight & unmarked; covers clean but all extremeties a little rubbed including joints, small indentation to spine, main general issue though is that textblock is all slightly shaken. A heavy and comprehensive overview of the state of knowledge at time of publication, including plate of Piltdown Man. Note: quoted shipping rates are calculated for 500-700 gram net weight, cost will be modified up or down as appropriate outside this range.
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- Bookseller
- Douglas Books
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 010159
- Title
- MEN OF THE OLD STONE AGE their environment, life and art
- Author
- OSBORN, Henry Fairfield
- Format/Binding
- Blue Cloth
- Book Condition
- Used - Good+ for Age
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 3rd ed. (1st-1915)
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- G.Bell and Sons
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1923
- Size
- 15.5 Cms x 23.5 Cms
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- stone age human evolution prehistory
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- Shaken
- A hardcover in which the text block is loose, but still attached to the binding.
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Good+
- A term used to denote a condition a slight grade better than Good.
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- PUB
- Common abbreviation for 'published'
- Plate
- Full page illustration or photograph. Plates are printed separately from the text of the book, and bound in at production. I.e.,...
- 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....
- Gutter
- The inside margin of a book, connecting the pages to the joints near the binding.
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- 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...
- 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...
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