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TIMBER ITS PROPERTIES, PESTS AND PRESERVATION
by F Y HENDERSON
- Used
- Good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good/Good
- Seller
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Brighton, East Sussex, United Kingdom
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
LONDON: CROSBY LOCKWOOD AND SON, 1944 Blue cloth boards with gilt blocked titles to spine, 220 x 145 mm approx. 148 pp. 61 Figs all as called for (being b/w photo plates and line drawings in text). 2nd Edition 1944. Please see our images of the actual book offered for sale for further details and condition. Good/ Good (Book - cloth faded to extremities, no notable wear, offset browning band to free end papers with mild foxing spots to same and occasionally to margins of text block. Dust Jacket- rubbed with some loss to head and tail and corner tips, mild foxing spots and soiling, non price clipped. No other notable defects).
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Details
- Bookseller
- booksonlinebrighton
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 133365
- Title
- TIMBER ITS PROPERTIES, PESTS AND PRESERVATION
- Author
- F Y HENDERSON
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 2nd Edition
- Publisher
- CROSBY LOCKWOOD AND SON
- Place of Publication
- LONDON
- Date Published
- 1944
- Keywords
- Timber, F Y Henderson, Timber Identification, Seasoning, Bending, Veneers, Plywood, Distortion, Dry Rot, Wood -attacking beetles, Preservation,
Terms of Sale
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30 day return guarantee, with full refund including shipping costs for up to 30 days after delivery if an item arrives misdescribed or damaged.
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Glossary
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- Offset
- A technique of printing where the inked image or text is ...
- Tail
- The heel of the spine.
- 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....
- 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...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Price Clipped
- When a book is described as price-clipped, it indicates that the portion of the dust jacket flap that has the publisher's...
- 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....
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