NATURE, MAN AND WOMAN
by Alan W. Watts
- Used
- Condition
- Very Good -/Good +
- Seller
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Chamblee, Georgia, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
US: Pantheon Books, 1958. Hardback. Very Good -/Good +. Navy cloth over boards with gilt particulars to spine and gilt title to front board. Page 4 is dog eared; otherwise, pages are clean and unmarked. Text block is tanned with foxing and small damp stain to top edge; very light foxing to lower edge. Endpages have very light foxing with rectangular shadowing to first free endpaper and last free endpaper; loose time magazine article included. Binding is tight, spine slightly leans. Dust jacket is foxed at rear cover with tanning, rubbing, creasing and chipping to edges, corners and ends of spine; sunning to spine with tearing along edges particularly to lower edge where spine meets front cover.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Atlanta Vintage Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 64461
- Title
- NATURE, MAN AND WOMAN
- Author
- Alan W. Watts
- Format/Binding
- Hardback
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good -
- Jacket Condition
- Good +
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Pantheon Books
- Place of Publication
- US
- Date Published
- 1958
- Keywords
- Metaphysical
Terms of Sale
Atlanta Vintage Books
30 day return guarantee, with full refund including shipping costs for up to 30 days after delivery if an item arrives misdescribed or damaged.
About the Seller
Atlanta Vintage Books
Biblio member since 2007
Chamblee, Georgia
About Atlanta Vintage Books
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Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Chipping
- A defect in which small pieces are missing from the edges; fraying or small pieces of paper missing the edge of a paperback, or...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- 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...
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- 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....
- 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....
- 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...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Foxed
- Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...