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The Fifteen Decisive Battles of the World: From Marathon to Waterloo
by Sir Edward Creasy
- Used
- Acceptable
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Acceptable
- Seller
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Goring-by-Sea, West Sussex, United Kingdom
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
Macmillan and Co., Limited, 1915. Hardcover. Acceptable. 1915. No edition remarks. 639 pages. No dust jacket. Blue cloth with gilt lettering. Prize plate stuck to front paste down. Black and white illustrations throughout. Deckled edges. Pages are lightly tanned throughout. Moderate cracking to gutters with exposed netting. Notable staining and droplets to p.7-10. Previous owner's inscriptions to front end papers. Moderate tanning to end papers. Heavy tanning to text block edges. Boards have light shelf-wear with mild corner bumping and fraying. Light scratching to boards and spine. Moderate marking and staining to rear board. Light tanning to spine, which has mild crushing and wear to ends.
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Details
- Bookseller
- World of Rare Books
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1688748884LEE
- Title
- The Fifteen Decisive Battles of the World: From Marathon to Waterloo
- Author
- Sir Edward Creasy
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Acceptable
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Macmillan and Co., Limited
- Date Published
- 1915
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About the Seller
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Goring-by-Sea, West Sussex
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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...
- 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...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Plate
- Full page illustration or photograph. Plates are printed separately from the text of the book, and bound in at production. I.e.,...
- 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....
- Acceptable
- A non-traditional book condition description that generally refers to a book in readable condition, although no standard exists...
- 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....
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