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The Matterhorn
by Rey, Guido; Translated by J.E.C. Eaton
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good+/Very Good
- Seller
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Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1946. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good+/Very Good. First edition, 1946, hardcover with green cloth boards in dust jacket, octavo, 278pp., frontispiece in color, otherwise illustrated in b&w. Book VG+ with hint of edgewear to boards, binding tight, endpapers gently foxed, text clean and unmarked but toned throughout and spotting to top edge of text block. DJ VG with edgewear that includes some small closed tears, longer taped tear to bottom of rear joint, front flap price-clipped, not in archival mylar wrap.
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- Bookseller
- Common Crow Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- B40737
- Title
- The Matterhorn
- Author
- Rey, Guido; Translated by J.E.C. Eaton
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good+
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First edition
- Publisher
- Basil Blackwell
- Place of Publication
- Oxford
- Date Published
- 1946
- Keywords
- Natural History, Mountains
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About the Seller
Common Crow Books
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Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
About Common Crow Books
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Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- 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....
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- Foxed
- Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...
- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- VG
- Very Good condition can describe a used book that does show some small signs of wear - but no tears - on either binding or...
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