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The French Wine and Liquor Manufacturer. A Practical Guide and Receipt Book for the Liquor Merchant
by John Rack
- Used
- Acceptable
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Acceptable
- Seller
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Goring-by-Sea, West Sussex, United Kingdom
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
Behrens Publishing Company, 1111. Hardcover. Acceptable. Fourth Edition Revised. 273 pages. No dust jacket. This is an ex-Library book. Red cloth with gilt lettering. Ex-Library copy, with expected inserts and inscriptions. Moderate thumb marking, foxing and tanning to pages. More prominent to text block edges, pastedowns and free endpapers. Moderate cracking to gutters and hinges,, exposing netting and causing some looseness to binding and boards but pages remain attached. Boards have minor corner bumping and edgewear with mild tanning and scuffing overall. Spine has minor tanning with visible splitting, fraying and crushing to ends. Book has a slight forward lean. Lettering remains bright and clear.
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- Seller
- World of Rare Books
(GB)
- Seller's Inventory #
- 1694009734IEV
- Title
- The French Wine and Liquor Manufacturer. A Practical Guide and Receipt Book for the Liquor Merchant
- Author
- John Rack
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Acceptable
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Behrens Publishing Company
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
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Goring-by-Sea, West Sussex
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Glossary
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- 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....
- 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...
- 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....
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Acceptable
- A non-traditional book condition description that generally refers to a book in readable condition, although no standard exists...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
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