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YOUR CHANCE TO WIN : THE LAWS OF CHANCE AND PROBABILITY
by Levinson, Horace C
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good Plus / Very Good
- Seller
-
Eugene, Oregon, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
New York: Farrar & Rinehart, Inc, 1939. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good Plus / Very Good. Octavo, 8.3 x 5.6 in., pp. 343. Red cloth boards with black title to front and spine. Publisher's red topstain. Untrimmed fore-edge. Light rubbing to extremities. Rubbing and small closed tears to edges of dustjacket. Small chips to top of dustjacket spine. Price clipped. Protected in mylar. "A concise and highly readable account of the laws of chance and how they enter into numerous aspects of human activity from gambling to modern business and science." (from the dustjacket).
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Details
- Bookseller
- Aardvark Rare Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 85802
- Title
- YOUR CHANCE TO WIN : THE LAWS OF CHANCE AND PROBABILITY
- Author
- Levinson, Horace C
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good Plus / Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Farrar & Rinehart, Inc
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1939
- Keywords
- Gaming, Betting, Odds, Probability,Poker and Superstition the Science of Luck
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Aardvark Rare Books
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Eugene, Oregon
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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.
- 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....
- 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...
- 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...
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
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