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Lectures on Political Economy, Delivered in Trinity and Michaelmas Terms, 1833
by Mountifort Longfield
- Used
- Acceptable
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Acceptable
- Seller
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Goring-by-Sea, West Sussex, United Kingdom
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About This Item
William Curry, 1834. Hardcover. Acceptable. 1834. No Edition Remarks. 267 pages. No dust jacket. Brown paper covered boards with a grey cloth spine strip and paper spine label. Does not include a half title page. Pages have mild tanning and foxing throughout, moderate at end-papers, paste-downs and text-block edges. Heavy cracking at front hinge, start of Lecture 1, page 128; binding is shaky. pp238 to end have one small hole from puncture to rear board, but text remains legible. Boards have moderate edge-wear with heavy bumping to corners and rubbing to surfaces. Moderate crushing to spine ends, with splitting, fraying and slight loss to the head, tail and joints. Book has a slight forward lean. Moderate tanning to spine. Loss to paper covering. Boards are bowed. Spine slightly cocked. Paper spine label is heavily rubbed and largely illegible.
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- Bookseller
- World of Rare Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1709204053ALK
- Title
- Lectures on Political Economy, Delivered in Trinity and Michaelmas Terms, 1833
- Author
- Mountifort Longfield
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Acceptable
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- William Curry
- Date Published
- 1834
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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...
- Spine Label
- The paper or leather descriptive tag attached to the spine of the book, most commonly providing the title and author of the...
- Hinge
- The portion of the book closest to the spine that allows the book to be opened and closed.
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- Cocked
- Refers to a state where the spine of a book is lightly "twisted" in such a way that the front and rear boards of a book do not...
- 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...
- Half Title
- The blank front page which appears just prior to the title page, and typically contains only the title of the book, although, at...
- Title Page
- A page at the front of a book which may contain the title of the book, any subtitles, the authors, contributors, editors, the...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Tail
- The heel of the spine.
- Spine Strip
- The material covering the spine, or the rear portion of the outside of a book.
- Acceptable
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