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The Panama Canal and Its Makers
by Vaughan Cornish
- Used
- Good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good
- Seller
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Goring-by-Sea, West Sussex, United Kingdom
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About This Item
T. Fisher Unwin, 1909. Hardcover. Good. 1909. No edition remarks. 192 pages. No dust jacket. This is an ex-Library book. Brown cloth with gilt lettering. Book has been rebound by library, with expected inserts, stamps and inscriptions. Contains black and white photographic plates. Clean pages with mild tanning and foxing throughout. Notable thumb-marking throughout. Pencil inscription to half title page. Mild water staining to pages throughout. Mild cracking to gutters, with exposed binding and some mildly loose pages. Boards have moderate shelf-wear with bumping to corners and rubbing to surfaces. Mild crushing and tearing to spine ends. Notable scratching and marking to boards. Book has forward lean. Library number to spine.
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Details
- Seller
- World of Rare Books
(GB)
- Seller's Inventory #
- 1706611734LEE
- Title
- The Panama Canal and Its Makers
- Author
- Vaughan Cornish
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- T. Fisher Unwin
- Date Published
- 1909
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Goring-by-Sea, West Sussex
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Glossary
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- 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...
- 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....
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- Half Title
- The blank front page which appears just prior to the title page, and typically contains only the title of the book, although, at...
- Rebound
- A book in which the pages have been bound into a covering replacing the original covering issued by the publisher.
- 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...
- Title Page
- A page at the front of a book which may contain the title of the book, any subtitles, the authors, contributors, editors, the...
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