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William Clift
by Dobson, Jessie
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine/good +
- Seller
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Lansdowne, Pennsylvania, United States
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About This Item
London: William Heinemann Medical Books, 1954. Hardcover. Near Fine/good +. viii, 144 p., frontispiece and 31 leaves of plates; 22 cm. Dark blue cloth with gilt spine title. Light grey dust jacket printed in maroon. Former owner's stamp on front fixed endpaper and title page verso with penciled note about acquisition in gutter of p. v. The life of William Clift (1775-1849), "the first Conservator of the great Hunterian Museum of the Royal College of Surgeons of England." -- dust jacket. Includes biographical notes and index. Book is in Near Fine Condition: former owner stamps; otherwise, clean and tight. Dust jacket is in Good+ Condition: tail of spine scraped; price-clipped; spine is sunned; lightly soiled.
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- Bookseller
- Classic Books and Ephemera
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 007687
- Title
- William Clift
- Author
- Dobson, Jessie
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- good +
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- William Heinemann Medical Books
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1954
- Bookseller catalogs
- Biography & Autobiography; Art, Photography, & Antiques; Medicine & Psychology;
Terms of Sale
Classic Books and Ephemera
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About the Seller
Classic Books and Ephemera
Biblio member since 2006
Lansdowne, Pennsylvania
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Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- 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...
- Soiled
- Generally refers to minor discoloration or staining.
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- 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....
- Gutter
- The inside margin of a book, connecting the pages to the joints near the binding.
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Tail
- The heel of the spine.
- 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...
- Leaves
- Very generally, "leaves" refers to the pages of a book, as in the common phrase, "loose-leaf pages." A leaf is a single sheet...
- Good+
- A term used to denote a condition a slight grade better than Good.
- Verso
- The page bound on the left side of a book, opposite to the recto page.
- Fine
- A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
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