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Transactions of the Highland and Agricultural Society of Scotland, Fifth Series, Volume XXXVI (36)
by Stirton, John
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good+
- Seller
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Campbeltown, Argyll and Bute, United Kingdom
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About This Item
United Kingdom: William Blackwood and Sons. Good+. 1922. Hardcover. A Very Good Minus hardcover in clean blue faux-leather boards with gilt script and decoration, bumped and rubbed to spine ends,spine edges and corners, and slightly sunned to spine which has shiny gilt lettering. Internally very good, with ivoried pages, lightly foxed to text-block edges. Carefully packaged and posted within 48 hours from our wee bookshop in Scotland. .
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- Bookseller
- The Old Bookshelf
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 13513
- Title
- Transactions of the Highland and Agricultural Society of Scotland, Fifth Series, Volume XXXVI (36)
- Author
- Stirton, John
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good+
- Publisher
- William Blackwood and Sons
- Place of Publication
- United Kingdom
- Date Published
- 1922
- Keywords
- Scottish Agriculture, Scotland's Agricultural History
- Bookseller catalogs
- Scotland;
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
The Old Bookshelf
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Campbeltown, Argyll and Bute
About The Old Bookshelf
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Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- 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...
- Sunned
- Damage done to a book cover or dust jacket caused by exposure to direct sunlight. Very strong fluorescent light can cause slight...
- Good+
- A term used to denote a condition a slight grade better than Good.
- Foxed
- Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...
- 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...
- 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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