Beyond Price: Pearls and Pearl-Fishing: Origins to the Age of Discoveries (Memoirs of the American Philosophical Society)
by R. A. Donkin
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0871692244
- ISBN 13
- 9780871692245
- Seller
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Houston, Texas, United States
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About This Item
American Philosophical Society, Philadelphia, 1998. Book. Very Good. Cloth. 448 pages. Hardcover. Texts in English. Minimal shelfwear to the edges with associated mild rubbing to the jacket covers. Else, the binding is tight, the interior clean and free of markings. Bound in cloth covered boards and wrapped in an illustrated paper dustjacket. Illustrated well, with an extensive bibliography and index..
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- Bookseller
- Exquisite Corpse, Booksellers (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 025330
- Title
- Beyond Price: Pearls and Pearl-Fishing: Origins to the Age of Discoveries (Memoirs of the American Philosophical Society)
- Author
- R. A. Donkin
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0871692244
- ISBN 13
- 9780871692245
- Publisher
- American Philosophical Society, Philadelphia
- Place of Publication
- U.s.a.
- Date Published
- 1998
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- Shelfwear
- Minor wear resulting from a book being place on, and taken from a bookshelf, especially along the bottom edge.
- Cloth
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- Jacket
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- Rubbing
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- 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...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.