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InterNET Services Corporation, 2005. Softcover. Good. Hard to find book in better than good condition. Light usage. Clean and unmarked pages. Corner tips are lightly bumped. Covers are lightly scuffed and scratched. The front cover has the imprint/indentation of four numerals, but you can only see that when you hold the book at an angle. Looking at the book straight on, you can't see them at all. Nice clean book.

Progress Publishers, 1980. Hardcover. Good. Third printing, 1980. DJ is a little worse for wear: scuffed, dirty, crimped, one inch rip on front and back of DJ. Sticker from old bookstore on the rear of DJ. Royal blue cloth covered boards, with gilt lettering on spine and flower design on front cover. Some fading to edges of the boards. Dented corner tips. Firm binding and clean pages. Pencil erasure of numeral on FFE. Flyleaf pages at back of book were stuck to each other at bottom of page.

Inkilap Kitabevi, 1992. Softcover. Acceptable. Softcover. IN TURKISH. Turkish cookbook, with additional information on table setting and table manners. Well age-toned wraps and pages. Wraps are scuffed and scratched. Scraped edges, worn corners and spine ends. Stained text block. A few dog-eared pages. Binding is okay. Well creased spine. Pages are not loose, but they are not well adhered to the spine. 783 pages.

Institute of Chinese Medicine, 1995. Second Edition. Softcover. Acceptable. 9x6x1. Second edition, published in 1995. This copy appears to have been rebound at some point with a thick plastic binding comb. The book itself is 1.5 inches thick. The yellowed, and somewhat fragile, comb itself is about 2 inches thick. On the "spine" of the comb, a plastic label sticker was affixed that says "Formulas." That label will stay in place. After this book was rebound with the comb, a clear adhesive sheet was placed onto the original softcover wraps to provide stiffness. The wraps have yellowed over time, with rubbed edges all the way around, bumped and creased corner tips, and in general, has seen much usage. Dirty thumbprint smudges on outside text-block and at lower corner. Ex-Libris sticker on inside front cover. There are occasional notes in pencil adjacent to formulas which are in English and Chinese. Back page has brief notes in ball point pen. It is recommended to replace the old… Read More

Dodo Press, 2008. Softcover. Good. 8x5x0. Trade paperback. Scuffed, scratched and rubbed covers. Bumped corner tips. There are five "X's" next to chapter names on contents page. 181 pages.

Science and Technology Literature Press - Chongqing Branch, 1990. Softcover. Acceptable. Full disclosure: We used a Google translate program to decipher the Chinese characters. There may be some inaccuracies, so our apologies if something has been interpreted incorrectly. Book is primarily in Chinese, with the exception of English names for certain amphibians. Book is wavy at the spine. Bumped and worn corners. Small tear at bottom of spine edge. Scraped spine edges. Heavily scuffed and scratched wraps. Pages 349 through 356 were mis-cut and outside edges protrude. Saddle-stitched binding, with wraps glued along the spine edge, paper is wrinkled. Small single letter in upper right corner of front wrap. The pages are free of markings. Will send photos upon request. 364 pages.

Bookbinders Guild of New York, 1994. Hardcover. Good. The 1994 catalog of the winners at the New York Book Show, as presented by the Bookbinders' Guild of New York. The categories include Children's Trade, Packaging for Electronic Media, General Trade, etc. Black and white photo representations of all of the winning categories are throughout this book. Forest green cloth covered book and slipcase. The slipcase is dirty, faded, scuffed and scraped with wearing to all edges of the slipcase. The book itself is in better shape, although there is a bit of fading to the cloth boards, with some some smudges. Gently bumped corner tips. Paste-downs and free end pages have a swirled marble effect. Pages are clean, binding is tight. Three pages have crimped corner ends in lower corner. Satin bookmark remains attached. 245 pages. Measures 10 1/4 by 10 1/4.