The Culture of Cities
by MUMFORD, Lewis
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Stockport, Cheshire, United Kingdom
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About This Item
Secker & Warburg , 1944. Hardback. Reprint, 1944. Blue cloth with gilt lettering to spine. Good minus condition; boards edgeworn and rubbed with bumps to corners and spine, fore edges lightly tanned with some faint foxing, pages clean and tightly bound, owners mark on fep. No dust jacket. Published: Secker & Warburg, 1944
Synopsis
This offers the first broad treatment of the city in both its historic and its contemporary aspects. “For distinction, entertainment, information, scholarship, and general human interest [this] is one of the most distinguished books” (Forum). Index; photographs.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Roy Turner Books (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 10937
- Title
- The Culture of Cities
- Author
- MUMFORD, Lewis
- Format/Binding
- Hardback
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Secker & Warburg
- Date Published
- 1944
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Roy Turner Books
Biblio member since 2017
Stockport, Cheshire
About Roy Turner Books
With more than thirty years' experience of collecting literary first editions, I specialise in the areas of both contemporary and earlier fiction, poetry, drama and children's books with particular emphases on signed modern firsts, authors' first and early published books, American and Irish literature and literary prize-winning writers.
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- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- Bumps
- Indicates that the affected part of the book has been impacted in such a way so as to cause a flattening, indention, or light...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- 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...
- 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....
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Reprint
- Any printing of a book which follows the original edition. By definition, a reprint is not a first edition.