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The Byzantine Achievement: An Historical Perspective A.D. 330-1453
by Robert Byron
- Used
- fair
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fair/No jacket
- Seller
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Inverness, Highland, United Kingdom
Item Price
NZ$158.39NZ$118.78
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About This Item
The Byzantine Achievement: An Historical Perspective A.D. 330-1453 by Robert Byron
Hardback, 1929, first edition, illustrated, published by George Routledge & Sons Ltd., London, xiii + 346 pages.
Octavo/8vo, measures around 8 7/8" by 6" by 1 1/2". Ex-library book with typical markings, stamps, etc. No dust jacket. Blue cloth binding, gilt emblem to front board and gilt lettering to spine. Marking and some scuffing to binding. Signs of wear, rubbing at edges and on hinges, some tearing to upper ends of outer hinges and to head and tail of spine. Bumped and torn corners. Book has slight forward tilt. Slackness to binding, cracking to inner hinges. Page edges browned, scuffed, foxed and a bit marked. Slight tanning also. Some marking, thumbing to page surfaces but otherwise clean, with no underlining, marginalia, etc. See pictures for further information.
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- Seller
- GN Books and Prints
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- Seller's Inventory #
- #BIBLIO-561
- Title
- The Byzantine Achievement: An Historical Perspective A.D. 330-1453
- Author
- Robert Byron
- Format/Binding
- Hardback, cloth
- Book Condition
- Used - Fair
- Jacket Condition
- No jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- George Routledge & Sons Ltd.
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1929
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- Byzantium
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About the Seller
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Biblio member since 2022
Inverness, Highland
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Seller based in the Scottish Highlands, dealing in a variety of books, including antiquarian, vintage and modern.
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- Marginalia
- Marginalia, in brief, are notes written in the margins, or beside the text of a book by a previous owner. This is very...
- 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....
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- 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...
- Tail
- The heel of the spine.
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- 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...
- 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...
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