Great Inventions (Smithsonian Scientific Series, Vol 12)
by Charles Greeley Abbot
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- Fine
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Fine/Very Good
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Brattleboro, Vermont, United States
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About This Item
Fine HC in Very Good slipcase. Red leatherette over boards with green Smithsonian device on front cover and gilt line and torch decorations on front cover and spine; textblock untrimmed at fore and tail edges; watermarked laid paper. Bright, clean covers and spine; lightly dust spotted on text block top edge; tightly bound; crisp, clean interior - many leaves unopened at tail edge. Slipcase is green leather-grain paper over boards; clean, lightly scuffed. 8vo, 383 pp; biblio, index; many illustrations.
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- Bookseller
- Madden Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- A02619
- Title
- Great Inventions (Smithsonian Scientific Series, Vol 12)
- Author
- Charles Greeley Abbot
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution
- Date Published
- 1934
- Bookseller catalogs
- History, Science, Technology;
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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...
- Tail
- The heel of the spine.
- Unopened
- A state in which all or some of the pages of a book have not been separated from the adjacent pages, caused by a traditional...
- 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...
- 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....
- Biblio
- The Greek root for a variety of words referring to the book, such as bibliography, bibliomania, etc. Also, one of the world's...
- Device
- Especially for older books, a printer's device refers to an identifying mark, also sometimes called a printer's mark, on the...
- Crisp
- A term often used to indicate a book's new-like condition. Indicates that the hinges are not loosened. A book described as crisp...