A CENTURY OF WONDERS: 100 Years Of Popular Science
by Heyn, Ernest V
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/No Jacket
- Seller
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Princeton, New Jersey, United States
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About This Item
Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Company, Inc, 1972. "In collaboration with past and present editors of Popular Science Monthly." 320 pp. Red cloth covers with blue cloth spine, gilt lettering on spine. Corners bumped and rubbed, edges rubbed, wear and fading to spine ends. Interior tight and clean.. First Edition. Cloth. Very Good/No Jacket. Illus. by Photographs, Illustrations. Size: Approx. 7 1/4" x 10 1/2 ". Magazine.
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- Bookseller
- Bee Creek Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 002513
- Title
- A CENTURY OF WONDERS: 100 Years Of Popular Science
- Author
- Heyn, Ernest V
- Illustrator
- Photographs, Illustrations
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Doubleday & Company, Inc
- Place of Publication
- Garden City, New York
- Date Published
- 1972
- Keywords
- Popular Science
- Bookseller catalogs
- Inventions;
- Size
- Size: Approx. 7 1/4" x 10 1/2 "
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- Gilt
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- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Jacket
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- Spine
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