Springfield, Ill: Charles C. Thomas, 1960. HB. With a Section on The Measurement of Body Composition by Josef Brozek". Blue cloth, gilt lettering on spine, 8vo, 186 pp. including extensive bibliography. Highlighting on 8 pages of text (at start of text), ffep clipped. Binding solid, slight foxing top of text block. In dust jacket with minor soiling, spine darkened, chipping. Book condition VG- in VG- DJ.

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Bookseller: Parker's Rare Books (US)
Bookseller's Inventory #: FH6303
Title: A Handbook of Anthropometry
Author: Montagu, M. F. Ashley
Format/Binding: HB
Book Condition: Used
Publisher: Charles C. Thomas
Place of Publication: Springfield, Ill
Date Published: 1960
Bookseller catalogs: Social Science;

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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....
Chipping: A defect in which small pieces are missing from the edges; fraying or small pieces of paper missing the edge of a paperback, or...
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...
FFEP: A common abbreviation for Front Free End Paper. Generally, it is the first page of a book and is part of a single sheet that...
Jacket: Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
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....