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King Solomon's Ring: New Light on Animal Ways
by Konrad Z. Lorenz
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Acceptable/Acceptable
- Seller
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Goring-by-Sea, West Sussex, United Kingdom
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
Methuen & Co. Ltd., 1955. Hardcover. Acceptable/Acceptable. 1955. Reprint. 202 pages. Orange jacket over blue cloth with gilt lettering to spine. Contains black and white illustrations throughout. Pages are mildly tanned and foxed, but text remains clear. Binding is firm. Prize plate stuck to front pastedown, with visible marks to free endpaper opposite. Boards have moderate shelf-wear, with noticeable corner bumping and some scuffing to edges. Spine ends are slightly crushed. Gilt remains bright. Visible bleach spotting overall. Book has a slight forward lean. Unclipped jacket. Light tanning and foxing to all surfaces. Moderate edgewear, with noticeable chipping, tearing and creasing, and slight loss to spine ends. Visible marking to exterior.
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Details
- Bookseller
- World of Rare Books
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1676545258ADA
- Title
- King Solomon's Ring: New Light on Animal Ways
- Author
- Konrad Z. Lorenz
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Acceptable/Acceptable
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Methuen & Co. Ltd.
- Date Published
- 1955
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
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Biblio member since 2009
Goring-by-Sea, West Sussex
About World of Rare Books
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- 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....
- Chipping
- A defect in which small pieces are missing from the edges; fraying or small pieces of paper missing the edge of a paperback, or...
- 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...
- Foxed
- Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...
- Plate
- Full page illustration or photograph. Plates are printed separately from the text of the book, and bound in at production. I.e.,...
- 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.
- 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...
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