Near Horizons: The Story of an Insect Garden
by Edwin Way Teale
- Used
- good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good/Good
- Seller
-
Rochester, New York, United States
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About This Item
New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1947. Book. Good. Hardcover. Fourth printing, stated. Lime-colored cloth with black titles. Boards clean, light shelf wear. Spine ends gently bumped, a touch sunned. Binding sound. Text block with moderate foxing. Contents unmarked, clean. DJ price-clipped, edges with scotch tape repairs. 1.5" area of loss at upper corner of front panel, repaired by previous owner with piece of white card stock. Edges otherwise rubbed with a few short closed tears, small chip near crown. Front panel mostly unaffected. Size: 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Small World Books, LLC (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 071085
- Title
- Near Horizons: The Story of an Insect Garden
- Author
- Edwin Way Teale
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- Good
- Publisher
- Dodd, Mead & Company
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1947
- Keywords
- INSECTS
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Small World Books, LLC
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Rochester, New York
About Small World Books, LLC
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- 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...
- 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....
- Shelf Wear
- Shelf wear (shelfwear) describes damage caused over time to a book by placing and removing a book from a shelf. This damage is...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Sunned
- Damage done to a book cover or dust jacket caused by exposure to direct sunlight. Very strong fluorescent light can cause slight...
- 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....