The Passionate Sightseer: From the Diaries 1947 to 1956
by Bernard Berenson
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good/Acceptable
- Seller
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Goring-by-Sea, West Sussex, United Kingdom
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
Thames and Hudson, 1961. Hardcover. Very Good/Acceptable. 1961. No edition remarks. 200 pages. Beige dust jacket over grey cloth. Contains black and white, and colour photographic plates. Book is in better condition than most examples of this age. Neat, clean, well bound pages with very minimal foxing, tanning and thumbing. Small inscriptions and neat labels may be present. Boards have mild shelf wear with light rubbing and corner bumping. Some light marking and sunning. Soft crushing to spine ends. Unclipped jacket has moderate edge wear with chips, tears and creasing. Heavier tears to joints. Tanning to spine and edges. Light rubbing and scuffing to panels.
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Details
- Bookseller
- World of Rare Books (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1624535241ADA
- Title
- The Passionate Sightseer: From the Diaries 1947 to 1956
- Author
- Bernard Berenson
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good/Acceptable
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Thames and Hudson
- Date Published
- 1961
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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....
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- 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...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- 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...