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The white Mans Burden: The Social Service Lecture, 1939
by William Paton
- Used
- good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good
- Seller
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Goring-by-Sea, West Sussex, United Kingdom
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About This Item
The Epworth Press, 1939. Hardcover. Good. 1939. First Edition. 77 pages. No dust jacket. Red cloth with black lettering to spine. Pages are bright and clear with light tanning to free endpapers and text block edges. Former owner's inscription to front free endpaper, with a pencil inscription to paste-down. A few small nicks and mild foxing along text block edge. Boards have light shelf-wear with minor corner bumping and mild crushing to spine ends. Light sunning to spine and edges. Book has a subtle forward lean and bow.
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Details
- Bookseller
- World of Rare Books
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1691074079DPB
- Title
- The white Mans Burden: The Social Service Lecture, 1939
- Author
- William Paton
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- The Epworth Press
- Date Published
- 1939
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About the Seller
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Goring-by-Sea, West Sussex
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- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- 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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