The World of Cotton
by Vale, Edmund
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Beloit, Wisconsin, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
London: Robert Hale Limited, 1951 Very Good/Fair. Octavo. 187 with appendices and index. Lively exploration of the cotton industry, with several dozen photos and illustrations. Blue cloth with gilt lettering. Tail of spine browned, with corresponding large chip in jacket spine; jacket spine browned; one-inch tear on lower front jacket; small chips at ends on jacket hinges; price clipped..
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Details
- Bookseller
- Bookworks MWABA, IOBA (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 999665
- Title
- The World of Cotton
- Author
- Vale, Edmund
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- London: Robert Hale Limited, 1951
- Keywords
- COTTON, AGRICULTURE, TEXTILES
Terms of Sale
Bookworks MWABA, IOBA
All books are subject to prior sale, though we make every effort to keep our inventory current. Books are returnable within ten days with prior notification. We will request extra shipping for large books and sets going to addresses outside the United States.
About the Seller
Bookworks MWABA, IOBA
Biblio member since 2006
Beloit, Wisconsin
About Bookworks MWABA, IOBA
Most of our stock is on-line only, though we have many books in three booths at Angela's Attic Antique Mall, 1020 Gardner Street in South Beloit, Illinois; a booth across the street at the Best of Beloit; and a large booth at the Lake Geneva Antique Mall, 829 Williams Street, Lake Geneva, WI. You may request to see any of our on-line inventory at any location with a few days' notice.
Glossary
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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...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Tail
- The heel of the spine.
- 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...
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- 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...
- 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....