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A Short History of The Chinese
by Mary A. Nourse
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good/Acceptable
- Seller
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Goring-by-Sea, West Sussex, United Kingdom
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About This Item
The New Home Library, 1944. Hardcover. Good/Acceptable. 1944. Third Edition; Reprint. 413 pages. Dust jacket over red cloth. Clean pages with faint tanning and foxing throughout. Tightly bound with faint thumb-marking throughout. Mild droplet staining to text block edges. Boards have light edge wear with minor corner bumping. Mild crushing to spine, with occasional markings overall. Clipped jacket has heavy edgewear with some areas of loss, heavy tears, chips, and creasing. Moderate water staining to spine and front panel. Mild tanning to spine. Moderate rubbing and marking all over.
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Details
- Bookseller
- World of Rare Books
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1705484697IEV
- Title
- A Short History of The Chinese
- Author
- Mary A. Nourse
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good/Acceptable
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- The New Home Library
- Date Published
- 1944
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About the Seller
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Goring-by-Sea, West Sussex
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- 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....
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- Spine
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- Cloth
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- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
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- 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...
- Reprint
- Any printing of a book which follows the original edition. By definition, a reprint is not a first edition.
- New
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