LITTLE MASTERPIECES OF SCIENCE 6 VOLUME SET Health and Healing-Invention and Discovery-Mind-The Naturalist As Interpreter and Seer-Explorers-The Skies and the Earth
by George Iles
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Pomona, New York, United States
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About This Item
New York: Doubleday, Page & Company. 1902. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. All 6 volumes Good+ in boards. Small open tears on panel corners of all 6 volumes. Shelfwear and light fraying on spine crown and heel of all 6 volumes. Light foxing on text block edges and spines of all 6 volumes. Small light stains on front and rear panels of all 6 volumes. Closed tear on tissue guard of "Explorers". Front hinge starting on "Explorers". Rear hinge cracked and text block detaching from binding on "The Skies and the Earth". .
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- Bookseller
- Rare Book Cellar (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 310815
- Title
- LITTLE MASTERPIECES OF SCIENCE 6 VOLUME SET Health and Healing-Invention and Discovery-Mind-The Naturalist As Interpreter and Seer-Explorers-The Skies and the Earth
- Author
- George Iles
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used
- Edition
- First Edition; First Printing
- Publisher
- Doubleday, Page & Company
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1902
- Note
- May be a multi-volume set and require additional postage.
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Glossary
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- Shelfwear
- Minor wear resulting from a book being place on, and taken from a bookshelf, especially along the bottom edge.
- 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....
- Heel
- The lower most portion of the spine when the book is standing vertically.
- Good+
- A term used to denote a condition a slight grade better than Good.
- 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....
- 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,...
- 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...
- Hinge
- The portion of the book closest to the spine that allows the book to be opened and closed.