United Kingdom: Scientific Book Club. Good+ in Good+ dust jacket. 1957. Book Club Edition. Hardcover. BOOK CLUB EDITION - A Good hardcover in a Good dustjacket. Book is in clean blue boards, bumped and lightly rubbed to the spine ends and corners. Internally, a small brown marker mark on the front endpaper, cream pages, lightly tanned and foxed to the text-block edges. The dustjacket is lightly soiled and foxed to the panels, and creased to the edges, with small closed tears and chips to the spine ends and tips supplied - in a new removable archival sleeve. Carefully packaged and despatched within 48 hours from our wee bookshop in Scotland. .

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Seller: The Old Bookshelf (GB)
Seller's Inventory #: 9664
Title: Satellites and Spaceflight
Author: Burgess, Eric
Format/Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Used - Good+ in Good+ dust jacket
Edition: Book Club Edition
Publisher: Scientific Book Club
Place of Publication: United Kingdom
Date Published: 1957
Keywords: Space Exploration
Bookseller catalogs: Space Exploration; Astronomy;

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The Old Bookshelf

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About The Old Bookshelf

Welcome to the home of The Old Bookshelf, situated in Campbeltown on the West Coast of Scotland. Our wee bookshop holds over 15,000 New, Antiquarian, Out of Print and Used titles available for immediate despatch. We maintain a wide general stock, specialising in local, Scottish, maritime and military. Out of print and new titles are catalogued every day.Scottish Independent Retail Awards Regional Finalist: 2011 and 2015. Winner 2016

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Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:

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....
Jacket: Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
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...
New: A new book is a book previously not circulated to a buyer. Although a new book is typically free of any faults or defects, "new"...
Book Club Edition: A generic term denoting a book which was produced or distributed by one of any number of book club organizations. Usually the...
Good+: A term used to denote a condition a slight grade better than Good.
Soiled: Generally refers to minor discoloration or staining.
Foxed: Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...