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Switzerland
by Russell, John
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/good
- Seller
-
Stone Mountain, Georgia, United States
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About This Item
London: B.T. Batsford Ltd, 1950. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/good. Octavo. Green cloth hardcover with gilt lettered title on the spine. Illustrated dust jacket in book jacket wrap. 152 pages. Price clipped. Light edge wear to the cover. Edge wear to the dust jacket.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Americana Books ABAA
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 21314
- Title
- Switzerland
- Author
- Russell, John
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- B.T. Batsford Ltd
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1950
Terms of Sale
Americana Books ABAA
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
Americana Books ABAA
Biblio member since 2009
Stone Mountain, Georgia
About Americana Books ABAA
Americana Books in business since 1993 specializing in American History and Americana. Member ABAA ( Antiquarian Booksellers Association of America)
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...
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- Price Clipped
- When a book is described as price-clipped, it indicates that the portion of the dust jacket flap that has the publisher's...
- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- 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...
- 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....
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