George G. Harrop 1949 (?). Imperial octavo, purple cloth boards, gilt lettering to spine, frontispiece, 280pp, illus. VG- (moderate rubbing & bruising to boards, moderate foxing, soiling & fading to eps & page edges, both gutters slightly awry, adhesive tape residue to prelims & eps due, several articles, excepts, pictures stuck into eps, contains strip of photo negatives) in d/w, tatty (closed tears to spine, brusing, creasing, moderate foxing & dampstaining),

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Title: A History of Fireworks
Author: BROCK, ALAN ST. H
Book Condition: Used
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: George G. Harrop 1949 (?)
Keywords: fireworks pyrotechnics history military entertainment pyrotechny chemistry manufacture accidents tradition traditions

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Rubbing: Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
Octavo: Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
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...
G: Good describes the average used and worn book that has all pages or leaves present. Any defects must be noted. (as defined by AB...
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...
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...