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TAO: THE WATERCOURSE WAY
by Watts, Alan
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good +
- ISBN 10
- 0394489012
- ISBN 13
- 9780394489018
- Seller
-
Chamblee, Georgia, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
US: Pantheon Books, 1975. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good +. Chih-chang, Lee. First Edition. Beige cloth over boards with black particulars and publisher's emblem to spine; debossed decoration to front board. Pages are clean and unmarked. Text block is lightly foxed; top edge sprayed orange; foxing to edges of front pastedown. Binding is tight and square. Boards are foxed with light bumping to corners and ends of spine. Dust jacket has closed tear to lower edge of front cover and sunning to spine; chip to top corner of rear cover. Dust jacket is covered in a protective mylar jacket.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Atlanta Vintage Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 64467
- Title
- TAO: THE WATERCOURSE WAY
- Author
- Watts, Alan
- Illustrator
- Chih-chang, Lee
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good +
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0394489012
- ISBN 13
- 9780394489018
- Publisher
- Pantheon Books
- Place of Publication
- US
- Date Published
- 1975
- LCCN
- 74004762
- 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
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- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- 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....
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- 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....
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
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