Routledge Kegan Paul, 1960. Hardcover. Acceptable. 1960. First Edition. 611 pages. No dust jacket. Green cloth. Moderate tanning to pages with heavier foxing and tanning to pastedowns and endpapers. Pen and pencil inscriptions to front pastedown & endpaper with heavier ink marks, foxing and tanning to text block edges. Both hinges are cracked with exposed netting and cracks to guttering with exposed netting. Binding is very loose. Boards have minor rubbing and heavier bumping to corners. Fair crushing to spine ends as well.

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Bookseller: World of Rare Books (GB)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 1632839597IEV
Title: In Defense of Reason
Author: Yvor Winters
Format/Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Used - Acceptable
Quantity Available: 1
Publisher: Routledge Kegan Paul
Date Published: 1960

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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...
Jacket: Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
Rubbing: Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
Fair: is a worn book that has complete text pages (including those with maps or plates) but may lack endpapers, half-title, etc....
Acceptable: A non-traditional book condition description that generally refers to a book in readable condition, although no standard exists...
Cloth: "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
Text Block: Most simply the inside pages of a book. More precisely, the block of paper formed by the cut and stacked pages of a book....
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....
Cracked: In reference to a hinge or a book's binding, means that the glue which holds the opposing leaves has allowed them to separate,...