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Immediate Knowledge and Happiness - Non-Dualistic Vedanta, Its Doctrine, Practice, and Some General Applications
by John Levy
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good/Acceptable
- Seller
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Goring-by-Sea, West Sussex, United Kingdom
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About This Item
John Lloyd, 1951. Hardcover. Good/Acceptable. 1951. First Edition. 149 pages. Cream dust jacket over blue cloth with gilt titles to spine. Corrections slip loosely enclosed after contents pages. Binding remains firm. Pages have light tanning and foxing throughout. Pencil inscription to front free endpaper. Foxing more noticeable towards the start and end of the book and on text block edges. Heavy strips of tanning to half title and penultimate leaf. Boards have light shelf-wear with corner bumping. Light sunning to spine and edges with crushing to spine ends. Spine is slightly sunned. Gilt is dulled and worn. Unclipped jacket has heavy edgewear with areas of loss, heavy tears, chips, and creasing. Medium tanning to spine and edges. Water staining to front panel. Moderate loss to upper rear. Foxing overall.
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Details
- Bookseller
- World of Rare Books
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1695114905CRP
- Title
- Immediate Knowledge and Happiness - Non-Dualistic Vedanta, Its Doctrine, Practice, and Some General Applications
- Author
- John Levy
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good/Acceptable
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- John Lloyd
- Date Published
- 1951
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- 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...
- Sunned
- Damage done to a book cover or dust jacket caused by exposure to direct sunlight. Very strong fluorescent light can cause slight...
- 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....
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- 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...
- 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...
- Half Title
- The blank front page which appears just prior to the title page, and typically contains only the title of the book, although, at...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- 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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