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Old clocks (Practical handbooks for collectors)
por Lloyd, H. Alan
- Usado
- Capa dura
- Condição
- VG.ACC/ACC
- Livreiro
-
Salisbury, Wiltshire, United Kingdom
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Sobre este item
HARDBACK SHIPPED FROM THE UK* Edition: 2nd. Revised & reset.* Impression: 1st. thus.* Date of Publication: 1958* Publisher: Ernest Benn Ltd.* Binding and cover condition: Red cloth, gilt title to spine. Slight bumps & rubs, wear to tail of spine. Boards damp stained. ACC* Jacket condition: B/w photo-illustrated paper dust wrapper. Gilt ground with black and red text. Considerable rubbing and shelf wear to top & bottom edges and to head & tail of spine. NOT PRICE CLIPPED, showing shelf price of 30s. net. ACC* Contents condition: PRIVATE COPY NOT EX-LIBRARY. Clean, crisp, tight and bright with no reading wear, no marks to text, owners signature to fep, otherwise no visible faults. VG* Illustrations: 50+ b/w photos and line drawings within text.* Pages: 168 pp. text. viii pp. bibliography, glossary & index at rear.* Description: This volume is one in the series of "Practical Handbooks for collectors". It is, as it implies more of a guide to collecting, purchasing and looking after old clocks than their manufacture, restoration and repair. If the latter subjects are covered it is in the form of guidance as to what should be avoided to prevent damage and deterioration. Every collector should have a copy.* A VG text copy with NO MAJOR FAULTS reduced to ACC by considerable age and wear to the boards & dust jacket.*
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Detalhes
- Livreiro
- Cocksparrow Books
(GB)
- Nº do estoque do livreiro
- 5345
- Título
- Old clocks (Practical handbooks for collectors)
- Autor
- Lloyd, H. Alan
- Formato/Encadernação
- Capa dura
- Estado do livro
- Usado - VG.ACC/ACC
- Quantidade Disponível
- 1
- Edição
- 2nd. Edition, Revised & Reset.
- Editorial
- Benn
- Local de publicação
- London UK 176
- Data de publicação
- 1958-01-01
- Peso
- 0.00 libras
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- 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....
- Crisp
- A term often used to indicate a book's new-like condition. Indicates that the hinges are not loosened. A book described as crisp...
- 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...
- Bumps
- Indicates that the affected part of the book has been impacted in such a way so as to cause a flattening, indention, or light...
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- Price Clipped
- When a book is described as price-clipped, it indicates that the portion of the dust jacket flap that has the publisher's...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- 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...
- Tail
- The heel of the spine.
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- 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...
- VG
- Very Good condition can describe a used book that does show some small signs of wear - but no tears - on either binding or...
