Peary The Man Who Refused To Fail
by Fitzhugh Green
- Used
- Good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good
- Seller
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Goring-by-Sea, West Sussex, United Kingdom
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About This Item
G.P. Putnam's sons, 1926. Hardcover. Good. 1926. No Edition Remarks. 404 pages. No dust jacket. This is an ex-Library book. Quarter bound leather with cloth covered boards. Expected library inserts, stamps and inscriptions. Moderate tanning, with light foxing and marking to pages. Bite marks to text block edges. Moderate rub-marking and tanning to pastedowns and endpapers with inserts to front. Boards have moderate shelf wear, with rubbing and marking. Light bumping to corners and crushing to spine ends. Binding remains firm. Boards are slightly bowed and tanned. Small dewy label taped to bottom spine.
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Details
- Seller
- World of Rare Books (GB)
- Seller's Inventory #
- 1669212143CRH
- Title
- Peary The Man Who Refused To Fail
- Author
- Fitzhugh Green
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- G.P. Putnam's sons
- Date Published
- 1926
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Glossary
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- 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...
- 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....
- 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....
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- 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...