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The Observer's Book of Freshwater Fishes
by A. Laurence Wells
- Used
- Good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good
- Seller
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Goring-by-Sea, West Sussex, United Kingdom
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About This Item
Frederick Warne & Co. Ltd, 1111. Hardcover. Good. No Edition Remarks. 152 pages. No dust jacket. Green cloth with black lettering. Colour illustration plates throughout and a black and white diagram. Pages bright and clear with some very mild tanning and foxing, particularly to textblock edges and endpapers. Minor pencil annotations to pastedowns. Binding remains firm. Boards have moderate shelf wear with bumping and fraying to corners and some rubbing to surfaces. Spine sunned and with mild crushing top and bottom.
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Details
- Bookseller
- World of Rare Books
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1692721769LEE
- Title
- The Observer's Book of Freshwater Fishes
- Author
- A. Laurence Wells
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Frederick Warne & Co. Ltd
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
World of Rare Books
Biblio member since 2009
Goring-by-Sea, West Sussex
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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....
- Sunned
- Damage done to a book cover or dust jacket caused by exposure to direct sunlight. Very strong fluorescent light can cause slight...
- 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...
- 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...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...