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IRAN: ELEMENTS OF DESTINY
by Roloff Beny
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0896960005
- ISBN 13
- 9780896960008
- Seller
-
Chamblee, Georgia, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
England: Everest House, 1978. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. First Edition. Beautiful brown cloth over boards with silver-debossed particulars to spine and silver-debossed decoration to front board. Soiling to fore edge of epigraph and crease to top corner of foldout at pg. 102; otherwise, pages are clean and unmarked. Light shelf wear to lower edge; otherwise, text block is clean and unmarked. Boards are clean and bright with light scuffing to fore edge of front board and center of rear board. Binding is sound, front board slightly cocked. Dust jacket is bright with light shelf wear, rubbing and creasing to extremities, and closed tear to lower edge of rear cover.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Atlanta Vintage Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 62016
- Title
- IRAN: ELEMENTS OF DESTINY
- Author
- Roloff Beny
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0896960005
- ISBN 13
- 9780896960008
- Publisher
- Everest House
- Place of Publication
- England
- Date Published
- 1978
- Keywords
- Middle East History
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
About Atlanta Vintage Books
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- Spine
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- Jacket
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- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- First Edition
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- 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....
- Fore Edge
- The portion of a book that is opposite the spine. That part of a book which faces the wall when shelved in a traditional...
- Cocked
- Refers to a state where the spine of a book is lightly "twisted" in such a way that the front and rear boards of a book do not...
- Shelf Wear
- Shelf wear (shelfwear) describes damage caused over time to a book by placing and removing a book from a shelf. This damage is...
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