CHINA: A SHORT CULTURAL HISTORY
by Fitzgerald, C.P
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Rockville, Maryland, United States
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About This Item
London: The Cresset Press, 1954. Reprinted. Hardcover. Octavo, xviii, 621 pages. In Good plus condition with a Good dust jacket. Spine gray with black lettering. Dust jacket protected with a mylar covering. Moderate plus wear and soiling exteriorly with minor edge wear. Boards have sunned and minor frays to head/tail edges. Text block has moderate age toning to the edges with several instances of notations interiorly and tiny chip to head edge to half title and frontispiece. Slight offsetting to few first/last pages. Illustrated. Reprinted. 1370707. FP New Rockville Stock.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Second Story Books, ABAA (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1370707
- Title
- CHINA: A SHORT CULTURAL HISTORY
- Author
- Fitzgerald, C.P
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Reprinted
- Publisher
- The Cresset Press
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1954
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About the Seller
Second Story Books, ABAA
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Rockville, Maryland
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- Sunned
- Damage done to a book cover or dust jacket caused by exposure to direct sunlight. Very strong fluorescent light can cause slight...
- Text Block
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- 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....
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- New
- A new book is a book previously not circulated to a buyer. Although a new book is typically free of any faults or defects, "new"...
- 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...
- 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...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...