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A Mirror to Geneva Its Growth, Grandeur and Decay
by Slocombe, George
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good in Good dust jacket
- Seller
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Bishop, California, United States
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About This Item
Usa: Henry Holt and Company. Good in Good dust jacket. 1938. First Edition (?). Hardcover. Assumed first edition; edition not stated. Good hardcover with clean pages that are beginning to tan with age. Good dust jacket with some wear to edges and corners of covers and spine. Dust jacket spine is faded but still legible. Dust jacket is now protected in mylar. Binding is cracked at the half title page but appears to be tight throughout the rest of the text block and no pages appear to be missing or loose. Previous owner attached an ex-libris sticker to the inside of the front cover. Front flap of the dust jacket was price clipped by a previous owner and the back flaps are clipped as well. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 338 pages .
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- Bookseller
- Spellbinder Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 574
- Title
- A Mirror to Geneva Its Growth, Grandeur and Decay
- Author
- Slocombe, George
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good in Good dust jacket
- Edition
- First Edition (?)
- Publisher
- Henry Holt and Company
- Place of Publication
- Usa
- Date Published
- 1938
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- History, World History, Geneva
- Bookseller catalogs
- History; History - Switzerland; History - Europe;
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Spellbinder Books
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Bishop, California
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- 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,...
- 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....
- Price Clipped
- When a book is described as price-clipped, it indicates that the portion of the dust jacket flap that has the publisher's...
- Flap(s)
- The portion of a book cover or cover jacket that folds into the book from front to back. The flap can contain biographical...
- 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.
- Half Title
- The blank front page which appears just prior to the title page, and typically contains only the title of the book, although, at...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Title Page
- A page at the front of a book which may contain the title of the book, any subtitles, the authors, contributors, editors, the...
- 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....
- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
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