G. Bell and Sons Ltd, 1953. Hardcover. Acceptable/Acceptable. 1953. No Edition Remarks. 278 pages. Illustrated dust jacket over brown cloth with a photographic black and white frontis and black and white illustrations throughout. Moderate tanning to pages with heavier foxing and tanning to pastedowns and endpapers. Pencil inscriptions to front endpaper and visible foxing and tanning to text block edges. Front hinge is cracked with exposed netting. Boards have visible rubbing and noticeable bumping to corners. Fair crushing to spine ends and fraying to cloth at corners and spine ends. Unclipped jacket with major edge wear and area of loss to spine. Splitting to joints and visible tearing to corners, edges and spine ends. Visible water marks to interior.

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Bookseller: World of Rare Books (GB)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 1647437838MHA
Title: Earth and Its Mysteries
Author: G. W. Tyrrell
Format/Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Used - Acceptable/Acceptable
Quantity Available: 1
Publisher: G. Bell and Sons Ltd
Date Published: 1953

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Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:

Hinge: The portion of the book closest to the spine that allows the book to be opened and closed.
Jacket: Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
Cloth: "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
Rubbing: Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
Fair: is a worn book that has complete text pages (including those with maps or plates) but may lack endpapers, half-title, etc....
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....
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...
Cracked: In reference to a hinge or a book's binding, means that the glue which holds the opposing leaves has allowed them to separate,...
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....