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On Greek Margins
by Bowra, C.M
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Used - Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0198143532
- ISBN 13
- 9780198143536
- Seller
-
Chicago, Illinois, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
Oxford at the Clarendon Press. Used - Very Good. 1970. First Edition. Hardcover. Cloth, dj. Octavo. vi & 281 pp. Some shelf wear and scuffing to dust jacket otherwise protected by acetate cover. Spine slightly cocked. Altogether a copy in Very Good condition. Very Good. (Subject: Ancient, Greece).
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Details
- Bookseller
- Powell's Bookstores Chicago
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- MC00574
- Title
- On Greek Margins
- Author
- Bowra, C.M
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0198143532
- ISBN 13
- 9780198143536
- Publisher
- Oxford at the Clarendon Press
- Place of Publication
- Oxford
- This edition first published
- 1970
Terms of Sale
Powell's Bookstores Chicago
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About the Seller
Powell's Bookstores Chicago
Biblio member since 2005
Chicago, Illinois
About Powell's Bookstores Chicago
Used, rare and out-of-print titles, specializing in academic and scholarly books. Independent bookstores in Chicago since 1970
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- Cocked
- Refers to a state where the spine of a book is lightly "twisted" in such a way that the front and rear boards of a book do not...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
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