Age of Great Guns: Cannon Kings and Cannoneers who Forged the Firepower of Artillery
by Comparato, Frank E
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good
- Seller
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Montreal, Quebec, Canada
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About This Item
Chapel Hill: Stackpole Books, 1965. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. Dust jacket is price-clipped. Previous bookseller's sticker on the front pastedown. Wear to front dust jacket cover, with rubbing to the extremities. Creasing and wear to dust jacket spine. Scuffing and staining to back dust jacket cover. Wear to the head and foot to the hardcover spine. Inlaid with a small newspaper strip on pages 132-3. Text block good and sturdy. Gilt lettering to hardcover spine. .
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- Bookseller
- Montreal Books (CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 508015
- Title
- Age of Great Guns: Cannon Kings and Cannoneers who Forged the Firepower of Artillery
- Author
- Comparato, Frank E
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Publisher
- Stackpole Books
- Place of Publication
- Chapel Hill
- Date Published
- 1965
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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....
- 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....
- Rubbing
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- 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...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...