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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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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Reprint: Any printing of a book which follows the original edition. By definition, a reprint is not a first edition.
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....
Cloth: "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
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....
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...
New: A new book is a book previously not circulated to a buyer. Although a new book is typically free of any faults or defects, "new"...
Rubbing: Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
Jacket: Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...