Fish and Fisheries of Australia
by Roughley, T. C
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good/Fair
- Seller
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Chagrin Falls, Ohio, United States
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About This Item
Angus and Robertson, 1961. Hardcover. Very Good/Fair. Very Good ; Fair Jacket. 1961 Angus and Robertson, Sydney. First published 1951; fourth reprint. Hardcover has green textured paper-covered boards with gold spine lettering. Map endpapers. Color frontispiece. 63 color plates, 21 black & white plates, 10 text illustrations. NOT ex-library. Binding tight. Hinges NOT cracked. Spine ends lightly bumped. Covers have light surface and edge wear. Spine covering is very lightly wrinkled; no stains. First and last 2 or 3 pages lightly wrinkled at binding. Gift inscription on half-title page. Bookshop sticker from Sydney on verso of front free endpaper. Pages clean and unmarked. 343 pages. Color illustrated jacket has tattered top and bottom edges, with several tears and overall rubbing and wrinkling. Dust jacket has small price in ink on front. Carefully packed, shipped in a box.
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- Bookseller
- SmarterRat Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 5904
- Title
- Fish and Fisheries of Australia
- Author
- Roughley, T. C
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Fair
- Publisher
- Angus and Robertson
- Date Published
- 1961
- Keywords
- Fishing,Australia and New Zealand
- Bookseller catalogs
- Fishing; Australia and New Zealand;
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
SmarterRat Books
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Chagrin Falls, Ohio
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Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- Verso
- The page bound on the left side of a book, opposite to the recto page.
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Fair
- is a worn book that has complete text pages (including those with maps or plates) but may lack endpapers, half-title, etc....
- 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...
- Reprint
- Any printing of a book which follows the original edition. By definition, a reprint is not a first edition.
- 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,...
- 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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