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From plantation to "Players": A Brief History of Tobacco Including Cultivation and Manufacture
by John Player & Sons
- Used
- Acceptable
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Acceptable
- Seller
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Goring-by-Sea, West Sussex, United Kingdom
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
Mardon, Son & Hall Ltd., 1953. Hardcover. Acceptable. 1953. Revised Printing. 55 pages. No dust jacket. A Brief History of Tobacco Including Cultivation and Manufacture. Brown cloth with gilt lettering and decoration. Contains black and white photographs and colour illustrations throughout. Heavy water staining to board edges. Pages are bright with light tanning and foxing to free endpapers and text block edges. Former owner's inscription to front paste-down, with occasional thumb-marking present throughout. Water mark to corner of rear pages. Boards have moderate shelf-wear with notable bumping to corners and rubbing to surfaces. Moderate tanning to spine and edges, with visible crushing to spine ends. Book has a pronounced forward lean and bow. Heavy water staining to board edges. Inscription to front board.
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- Bookseller
- World of Rare Books
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1688981491BWT
- Title
- From plantation to "Players": A Brief History of Tobacco Including Cultivation and Manufacture
- Author
- John Player & Sons
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Acceptable
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Mardon, Son & Hall Ltd.
- Date Published
- 1953
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
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Goring-by-Sea, West Sussex
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Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Acceptable
- A non-traditional book condition description that generally refers to a book in readable condition, although no standard exists...
- 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....
- Paste-down
- The paste-down is the portion of the endpaper that is glued to the inner boards of a hardback book. The paste-down forms an...
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- 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...
- 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...
- 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....
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