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Man's Means To His End
by Watson - Watt Sir Robert
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good in Fair dust jacket
- Seller
-
Vars, Ontario, Canada
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About This Item
McClelland & Stewart. Very Good in Fair dust jacket. 1961. First Edition. Hardcover. Brown cloth covers with black titles to the spine. Stated First Edtion. Bumping to the spine ends and corners, light wear to the top cover edge, well - bound with an unmarked interior. In very good condition. The DJ is in Fair conditio with sunning to the spine, chipping to the spine ends and browning around the cover edges. "The story of man from cave to fallout shelter. An analysis of the present peril of his weapons and a description of how, in the coming decade of decision, he can yet insure new heights of human achievement." ; Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; 221 pages .
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Details
- Bookseller
- Bytown Bookery
(CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 8708
- Title
- Man's Means To His End
- Author
- Watson - Watt Sir Robert
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good in Fair dust jacket
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- McClelland & Stewart
- Date Published
- 1961
- Keywords
- Civilization
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About the Seller
Bytown Bookery
Biblio member since 2006
Vars, Ontario
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- New
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- Jacket
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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....
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Fair
- is a worn book that has complete text pages (including those with maps or plates) but may lack endpapers, half-title, etc....
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