Wilmington, DE: Hercules Powder Company. Very Good- with no dust jacket. 1927. Hardcover. Burgundy cloth binding with gilt lettering only slightly rubbed at spine ends, corners; boards just a bit faded along edges; owner's name on front endpaper; leaf edges, endpapers lightly foxed, else a nice, tight & clean book. No dj. ; Many good b&w photos, ils., diagrams. ; 8vo; 169 pages .

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Bookseller: Hyde Brothers, Booksellers (US)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 20597
Title: Modern Blasting in Quarries & Open Pits
Author: Barab, J
Format/Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Used - Very Good- with no dust jacket
Publisher: Hercules Powder Company
Place of Publication: Wilmington, DE
Date Published: 1927
Keywords: Road Construction, Gravel Pits, Stone Excavation, Building Materials, Dynamite
Bookseller catalogs: Technology, General;

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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....
Cloth: "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
Tight: Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
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...
Foxed: Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...
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...