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Marvels of Ant Life
by W.F.Kirby
- Used
- fair
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Fair
- Seller
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Newark on Trent, Nottinghamshire, United Kingdom
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About This Item
S.W.Partridge & Co. ; 1898. Hardcover, no dust jacket. Red cloth covered boards with gilt lettering to the front and spine. Black illustration to front. Corners are bumped and rubbed. Front board cloth is a little wrinkled to bottom. Marks to front. Shelf wear evident to top and base of spine. Decorative end papers, front hinge loose with netting showing through. Presentation plate to inside front board dated 1900. Black and white picture depicting ' March of an Army of Foraging Ants' opposite title page. Pages yellowed and darker at edges. Black and white illustrations throughout. Catalogue of S.W.Partridge & Co.'s popular illustrated books to rear. Pre-owned
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- Bookseller
- Book Attic
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 0100336
- Title
- Marvels of Ant Life
- Author
- W.F.Kirby
- Format/Binding
- Hbk.
- Book Condition
- Used - Fair
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- S.W.Partridge & Co. Ltd.
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1898
- Pages
- 174 pp.
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Bookseller catalogs
- Myrmecology;
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30 day return guarantee, with full refund including original shipping costs for up to 30 days after delivery if an item arrives misdescribed or damaged.
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- 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...
- Plate
- Full page illustration or photograph. Plates are printed separately from the text of the book, and bound in at production. I.e.,...
- 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....
- 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...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Hinge
- The portion of the book closest to the spine that allows the book to be opened and closed.
- 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...
- 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...
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