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A PRINCELY IMPOSTOR?: THE KUMAR OF BHAWAL AND THE SECRET HISTORY OF INDIAN NATIONALISM
by Partha Chatterjee
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good -/Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0691090300
- ISBN 13
- 9780691090306
- Seller
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Chamblee, Georgia, United States
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About This Item
US: Princeton University Press, 2002. Hardcover. Very Good -/Very Good. Beige paper-covered boards with black-stamped particulars and publisher's emblem to spine. Pages are clean and unmarked. Text block and end papers are foxed particularly to top edge. Boards have bumping to edges, corners and ends of spine; rubbing along edge of spine at front board; small dampstain to center of front board. Binding is tight, spine slightly cocked.Dust jacket is clean with sunning to spine, fore edge, and top edge of front cover; creasing to corners and ends of spine; sticker to lower edge of rear cover. Dust jacket is covered in a protective mylar jacket.
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- Bookseller
- Atlanta Vintage Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 64837
- Title
- A PRINCELY IMPOSTOR?: THE KUMAR OF BHAWAL AND THE SECRET HISTORY OF INDIAN NATIONALISM
- Author
- Partha Chatterjee
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good -
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- ISBN 10
- 0691090300
- ISBN 13
- 9780691090306
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press
- Place of Publication
- US
- Date Published
- 2002
- Keywords
- Asian History
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Atlanta Vintage Books
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Chamblee, Georgia
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Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- 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...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- 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....
- 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...
- 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...
- Foxed
- Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...
- 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....
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
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