AN EXALTATION OF LARKS: THE ULTIMATE EDITION, MORE THAN 1,000 TERMS
by James Lipton
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0670300446
- ISBN 13
- 9780670300440
- Seller
-
Chamblee, Georgia, United States
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About This Item
US: Viking, 1977. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Previous owner's name penned on first free end paper and half title page. Slight browning in margins throughout. Binding is square and tight. Boards are overall clean, light rubbing, wear to edges. Text block is foxed and soiled. Dust jacket has some slight edgewear, creases and closed tears at spine ends and corners. Dust jacket covers are browned around edges and along spine, lightly soiled, scuffed and rubbed. Dust jacket is in a protective mylar cover. PICTURES PROVIDED UPON REQUEST.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Atlanta Vintage Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 40481
- Title
- AN EXALTATION OF LARKS: THE ULTIMATE EDITION, MORE THAN 1,000 TERMS
- Author
- James Lipton
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- ISBN 10
- 0670300446
- ISBN 13
- 9780670300440
- Publisher
- Viking
- Place of Publication
- US
- Date Published
- 1977
- Keywords
- Literature
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Atlanta Vintage Books
Biblio member since 2007
Chamblee, Georgia
About Atlanta Vintage Books
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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.
- 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....
- Foxed
- Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...
- Soiled
- Generally refers to minor discoloration or staining.
- 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....
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
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