London: Hodder and Stoughton, Limited. Very Good+ in Very Good dust jacket. 1937. Fourth Printing. Hardcover. DJ and boards show some shelf wear, with DJ having short tears on edges, light chipping. Discoloration on DJ spine and around DJ edges. ; A bright solid book, green cloth covered boards with gilt titles on spine, hinges intact, dustjacket in Mylar, unclipped. 9 fold-out B&W maps at the back. ; 8.7 X 5.9 X 1.5 inches; 374 pages; The author attempts to write a history of the major powers of the western world with the starting point being the ascension of Queen Victoria to the throne and ending 100 years later in 1936 in the shadow of the tensions leading to the oncoming confict - WWII. .

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Bookseller: Ainsworth Books (CA)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 20474
Title: The Hundred Years
Author: Guedalla, Philip
Format/Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Used - Very Good+ in Very Good dust jacket
Edition: Fourth Printing
Publisher: Hodder and Stoughton, Limited
Place of Publication: London
Date Published: 1937
Keywords: Queen Victoria, WWI, US Civil War
Bookseller catalogs: History;

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Ainsworth Books was for many years a bricks and mortar store in Vancouver, BC. When we acquired the store, we moved to a location in Delta. After three years we moved the stock home and started operation as an online, by appointment only operation. I have worked with books my whole adult life and enjoy giving recommendations.

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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...
Jacket: Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
Good+: A term used to denote a condition a slight grade better than Good.
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...
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...
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....
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...