The Direction of Human Development: Biological and Social Bases
by M. F. Ashley Montagu
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good/Acceptable
- Seller
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Goring-by-Sea, West Sussex, United Kingdom
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About This Item
C. A. Watts & Co. Ltd., 1957. Hardcover. Good/Acceptable. 1957. First UK Edition. 404 pages. Yellow dust jacket over black cloth with silver lettering to spine. Pages are lightly tanned with mild foxing to text block edges. Retail label stuck to front paste-down, with a few small nicks and rub marks along text block edge. Slight crinkling to gutters. Boards have light shelf-wear with minor corner bumping and mild crushing to spine ends. Book has a subtle forward lean and bow. Unclipped jacket has moderate surface wear, with chips, tears and creasing to edges, corners and spine ends. Moderate tanning to spine and edges.
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Details
- Bookseller
- World of Rare Books (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1692862157ADA
- Title
- The Direction of Human Development: Biological and Social Bases
- Author
- M. F. Ashley Montagu
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good/Acceptable
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- C. A. Watts & Co. Ltd.
- Date Published
- 1957
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- 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...
- 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....
- Paste-down
- The paste-down is the portion of the endpaper that is glued to the inner boards of a hardback book. The paste-down forms an...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- 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....