The Vital Spark: 101 Outstanding Lives
by Lowell Thomas
- Used
- good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good
- Seller
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Goring-by-Sea, West Sussex, United Kingdom
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About This Item
Doubleday & Co, 1959. Hardcover. Good. 1959. No Edition Remarks. 416 pages. No dust jacket. Grey and beige cloth. Rough-cut pages. Black and white illustrated plates. Minor foxing and tanning to pages. Much heavier and more prominent to text block edges, pastedowns and free endpapers. Annotations, underlining and marginalia in red pencil throughout; text remains unaffected. Binding remains firm. Boards have minor corner bumping and edgewear with mild staining, tanning and scuffing overall. Spine has soft crushing to ends. Book has a slight forward lean.
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Details
- Bookseller
- World of Rare Books (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1714051523GEO
- Title
- The Vital Spark: 101 Outstanding Lives
- Author
- Lowell Thomas
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Doubleday & Co
- Date Published
- 1959
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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....
- 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...
- 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...