Making and Using a Telescope
by Wilkins, H P Moore, P
- Used
- good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good
- Seller
-
Waynesboro, Pennsylvania, United States
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About This Item
Eyre and Spottiswoode, 1962-01-01. Hardcover. Good. Interior clean, binding tight, light wear to covers. Foxing to endpieces, ffep clipped, bookstore price sticker on ffep. Most of the dust jacket is intact, but it is smudged, has several small stains, the spine is sunned, it is price clipped and there are a series of chips to the top edge concentrated at the spine head. On reverse of title page "This book, first published in 1956, is printed in Great Britain for Eyre and Spottswoode...
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- Bookseller
- Calm and Peaceful Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- B0010XCDT2asin
- Title
- Making and Using a Telescope
- Author
- Wilkins, H P Moore, P
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Eyre and Spottiswoode
- Date Published
- 1962-01-01
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Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- 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...
- FFEP
- A common abbreviation for Front Free End Paper. Generally, it is the first page of a book and is part of a single sheet that...
- 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...
- Sunned
- Damage done to a book cover or dust jacket caused by exposure to direct sunlight. Very strong fluorescent light can cause slight...
- Price Clipped
- When a book is described as price-clipped, it indicates that the portion of the dust jacket flap that has the publisher's...
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