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A Key To Maps
by Brigadier H. S. L. Winterbotham
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Acceptable/Acceptable
- Seller
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Goring-by-Sea, West Sussex, United Kingdom
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
Blackie, 1943. Hardcover. Acceptable/Acceptable. 1943. Reprinted. 214 pages. Illustrated dust jacket over green cloth with a photographic black and white frontis and plate to the rear. Moderate tanning to pages with heavier foxing and tanning to pastedowns and endpapers. Heavy foxing and tanning to text block edges and pen inscriptions to front pastedown. Boards have visible rubbing and heavier bumping to corners. Fair crushing to spine ends and moderate rubbing to spine. Clipped jacket with heavy edge wear and light rubbing. Moderate sunning to spine and visible tearing to corners, edges and spine ends. Splitting to joints and major foxing and sunning to interior.
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Details
- Bookseller
- World of Rare Books
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1631267730ADA
- Title
- A Key To Maps
- Author
- Brigadier H. S. L. Winterbotham
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Acceptable/Acceptable
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Blackie
- Date Published
- 1943
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
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Goring-by-Sea, West Sussex
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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.
- 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....
- 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...
- Plate
- Full page illustration or photograph. Plates are printed separately from the text of the book, and bound in at production. I.e.,...
- 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....
- 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...
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