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THE BETTER PART OF VALOR. MORE, ERASMUS, COLET, AND VIVES, ON HUMANISM, WAR, AND PEACE, 1496 - 1535
by Robert P. Adams
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good
- Seller
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Blue Hill, Maine, United States
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About This Item
Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1962. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 6 1/4 x 9 1/2 in. Tan cloth boards with silver lettering on spine. Condition is VERY GOOD ; corners and ends of spine bumped, covers have some foxing and upper area sunned. Spine is sunned with lettering very unclear. Binding is tight and text very clean. Signed with dedication by author and his wife on ffep. Top edge of textblock foxed. Philosophy. Stax.
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- Bookseller
- Andre Strong Bookseller
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 8205
- Title
- THE BETTER PART OF VALOR. MORE, ERASMUS, COLET, AND VIVES, ON HUMANISM, WAR, AND PEACE, 1496 - 1535
- Author
- Robert P. Adams
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First edition
- Publisher
- Seattle: University of Washington Press
- Date Published
- 1962
- Bookseller catalogs
- Philosophy;
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Glossary
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- 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...
- Foxed
- Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...
- 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....
- Sunned
- Damage done to a book cover or dust jacket caused by exposure to direct sunlight. Very strong fluorescent light can cause slight...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- FFEP
- A common abbreviation for Front Free End Paper. Generally, it is the first page of a book and is part of a single sheet that...
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