A Manual of Secretarial Practice
by F.D. Head, F. Porter Fausset, H.A.R.J. Wilson
- Used
- Acceptable
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Acceptable
- Seller
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Goring-by-Sea, West Sussex, United Kingdom
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
Macdonald and Evans, 1930. Hardcover. Acceptable. 1930. Second Edition. 776 pages. No dust jacket. Blue cloth with gilt lettering. Prize plate stuck to front pastedown. Pages are lightly tanned and foxed throughout, heavier to endpapers. Cracking to gutters of a few pages with exposed binding. Some light creasing to pages. Binding is slightly shaky. Boards have mild edge wear with slight rubbing to surfaces. Soft crushing to spine ends. Moderate sunning to spine and edges. Book is forward leaning.
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Details
- Bookseller
- World of Rare Books (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1650009471ADA
- Title
- A Manual of Secretarial Practice
- Author
- F.D. Head, F. Porter Fausset, H.A.R.J. Wilson
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Acceptable
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Macdonald and Evans
- Date Published
- 1930
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Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- 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...
- 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...
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- Foxed
- Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...
- 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....
- Plate
- Full page illustration or photograph. Plates are printed separately from the text of the book, and bound in at production. I.e.,...
- Acceptable
- A non-traditional book condition description that generally refers to a book in readable condition, although no standard exists...