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On Thermonuclear War
by Kahn, Herman
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good Minus/Fair Jacket
- Seller
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Milwaukee , Wisconsin, United States
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About This Item
Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1960 651pp. No additional printings noted. Top tips and spine ends are bumped. Tips and spine ends are rubbed. Boards have light soiling. Edges of text block are foxed. Spine is a bit shaken. Edges of jacket have creases, small tears, chipping, and is missing pieces. Spine panel and flap folds are sunned with correlating toning to the inside of the jacket. Rear panel has small stains. Rear panel is sunned, worse at the top edge. Text is unmarked. . First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good Minus/Fair Jacket.
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- Bookseller
- Recycled Records and Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 34137
- Title
- On Thermonuclear War
- Author
- Kahn, Herman
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good Minus
- Jacket Condition
- Fair Jacket
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press
- Place of Publication
- Princeton, NJ
- Date Published
- 1960
- Bookseller catalogs
- History: Military;
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Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Shaken
- A hardcover in which the text block is loose, but still attached to the binding.
- 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...
- Sunned
- Damage done to a book cover or dust jacket caused by exposure to direct sunlight. Very strong fluorescent light can cause slight...
- 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...
- 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...
- Chipping
- A defect in which small pieces are missing from the edges; fraying or small pieces of paper missing the edge of a paperback, or...
- 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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