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How It Is Done, or Victories of the Engineer; describing in simple language how great engineering achievements in all parts of the world have been accomplished
by Archibald Williams
- Used
- Good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good/Without dust jacket (if issued)
- Seller
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Newmarket, New Hampshire, United States
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About This Item
Thomas Nelson, NY, 1908. First American Edition. Hardcover. Good/Without dust jacket (if issued). Sold as a good original reading copy of a scarce title despite condition. Octavo, 7 2/3†tall, 484 pages, white titles on blue cloth with a color cover vignette. A good, generally clean, neat original hardcover edition with moderate shelf wear and rubbing through at the fore-corners, spine canted, front hinge cracked binding solid, paper light to moderately yellowed. Issued in England as 'Victories of the Engineer.'
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- Bookseller
- Avenue Victor Hugo Books LLC
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 63166
- Title
- How It Is Done, or Victories of the Engineer; describing in simple language how great engineering achievements in all parts of the world have been accomplished
- Author
- Archibald Williams
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- Without dust jacket (if issued)
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First American Edition
- Publisher
- Thomas Nelson, NY
- Date Published
- 1908
- Keywords
- Engineering, technology, history
- Bookseller catalogs
- Technology;
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Newmarket, New Hampshire
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Avenue Victor Hugo Books specialize in first editions of the best in fiction, history, biography, poetry, drama, and essay. Our catalogue features careful, considered assessments of all of our stock. We are not flippers selling books by the pound. Instead, we try to limit our stock to books in a condition we'd be proud to place on our personal bookshelves.
For nearly 30 years, Avenue Victor Hugo Books was a fixture of Newbury Street in Boston's Back Bay, at one time holding over a quarter-million magazines and 150,000 used books. Awarded "Best Used Bookstore" multiple times by Boston Magazine, the store was a favorite of Boston-area authors and college students alike.
Since relocating to New Hampshire our shop has been featured on WBGH Boston News, WVCB's "Boston Chronicle," NHPR, and WMUR's "New Hampshire Chronicle." Avenue Victor Hugo has also recently been featured in "New Hampshire magazine," "The Boston Globe," UNH's "The New Hampshire," "The New Hampshire Union Leader," and "Foster's Daily Democrat."
Our store is open Fridays & Saturdays from 10am to 6pm in Lee, New Hampshire, less than 10 minutes from the University of New Hampshire.
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- 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...
- 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....
- 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...
- Reading Copy
- Indicates a book that is perfectly serviceable for reading. It may have a defect or damage. As such, reading copy is not a...
- Vignette
- A decorative design or illustration placed at the beginning or end 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,...
- Hinge
- The portion of the book closest to the spine that allows the book to be opened and closed.
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
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