George Frideric Handel: His Personality and His Times (New and Revised Edition, 1959)
by Newman Flower
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Seller
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Chicago, Illinois, United States
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About This Item
Cassell & Company Limited. Used - Very Good. 1959. Hardcover. Cloth, dj. New and revised edition, Cassell & Company Limited, London, 1959. 8vo. 399 pp. 37 illustrations, 4 color plates. Minor edgewear to dj, including one-inch tear at spine heel, half-inch tear at spine head, and half-inch loss at top of rear panel. Jacket now protected in acetate wrapper. Slight shelf wear to boards. Expected age-toning to text block edges and page margins. Else a bright, clean copy. Very Good. (Subject: Music).
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- Bookseller
- Powell's Bookstores Chicago (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- S77991
- Title
- George Frideric Handel: His Personality and His Times (New and Revised Edition, 1959)
- Author
- Newman Flower
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Cassell & Company Limited
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Powell's Bookstores Chicago
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- Heel
- The lower most portion of the spine when the book is standing vertically.
- 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...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Shelf Wear
- Shelf wear (shelfwear) describes damage caused over time to a book by placing and removing a book from a shelf. This damage is...
- 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....
- 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"...
- 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....