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Beautiful Flowering Shrubs
by G. Clarke Nuttall
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Acceptable/Acceptable
- Seller
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Goring-by-Sea, West Sussex, United Kingdom
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
The Waverley Book Company, 1111. Hardcover. Acceptable/Acceptable. 280 pages. Pictorial dust jacket over green cloth with lettering. Contains colour plates. Pages are clean, with moderate tanning to text block edges. Cracking to front hinge, with exposed netting. Some rub-marking and tanning to pastedowns and endpapers. Boards have moderate shelf wear, with rubbing and marking. Heavy bumping to corners and crushing to spine ends, causing cloth to fray. Binding remains firm. Boards are slightly bowed and sunned. Unclipped jacket has moderate edge wear with minor tears and chipping. Heavy tanning and creasing, with rubbing and marking. Water stains to spine.
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Details
- Bookseller
- World of Rare Books
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1622136117EWY
- Title
- Beautiful Flowering Shrubs
- Author
- G. Clarke Nuttall
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Acceptable/Acceptable
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- The Waverley Book Company
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
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Goring-by-Sea, West Sussex
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Glossary
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....
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- 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...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- 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....
- Shelf Wear
- Shelf wear (shelfwear) describes damage caused over time to a book by placing and removing a book from a shelf. This damage is...
- Chipping
- A defect in which small pieces are missing from the edges; fraying or small pieces of paper missing the edge of a paperback, or...
- Hinge
- The portion of the book closest to the spine that allows the book to be opened and closed.
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
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