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The Proud Tower
by Tuchman, Barbara W
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- UsedGood
- ISBN 10
- 0026203006
- ISBN 13
- 9780026203005
- Seller
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Skokie, Illinois, United States
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About This Item
UsedGood. Stated first printing, 1966 - not Book Club. Black cloth boards, no dust jacket. Mild scuffing and rubbing to cover with age. Spine cracked, but all pages intact. A couple scribbles in pencil on endpapers. Minor yellowing to page edges. Text clean, no underlining. Good copy.
Synopsis
The Proud Tower: A Portrait of the World Before the War, 1890-1914 is a 1966 book by Barbara Tuchman, collecting essays she had published in various periodicals during the mid 1960s. Each chapter deals with a different country, theme, and time (although all relate to the approximately 25 years preceding World War I).
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Details
- Bookseller
- Books4Cause Inc. (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 5D4000008L27_ns
- Title
- The Proud Tower
- Author
- Tuchman, Barbara W
- Book Condition
- UsedGood
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0026203006
- ISBN 13
- 9780026203005
- Publisher
- Scribner
- Place of Publication
- New York
- This edition first published
- January 1, 1966
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- 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...
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- Cracked
- In reference to a hinge or a book's binding, means that the glue which holds the opposing leaves has allowed them to separate,...
- 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...