A Treatise on Masonry Construction
by Baker, Ira O
- Used
- fair
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Fair/No Jacket
- Seller
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Greensboro, North Carolina, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
New York: John Wiley & Sons, 1900. Hardcover. Fair/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Octavo. xiii, 556 pages, indexed. Hardcover bound in brown cloth. The binding is rubbed and worn. The spine ends show insect damage. The inner hinges are cracking. The text block is generally sound and clean. Complete with 6 folding plates at the rear.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Pages Past Used and Rare Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 049530
- Title
- A Treatise on Masonry Construction
- Author
- Baker, Ira O
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fair
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- John Wiley & Sons
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1900
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾
- Weight
- 2.50 lbs
- Keywords
- 1900; Ira O. Baker; Masonry; Construction House; Houses; Architecture; Design; Building.
- Bookseller catalogs
- Engineering; Architecture;
Terms of Sale
Pages Past Used and Rare Books
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About the Seller
Pages Past Used and Rare Books
Biblio member since 2017
Greensboro, North Carolina
About Pages Past Used and Rare Books
Pages Past is a small used & rare bookshop located a few blocks from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. Since 1996 we have been serving the Triad community as well as customers from around the world. We have around 15-20,000 volumes in our shop. We specialize in North Carolina, Virginia, Civil War, Old Leather, Christianity, Eastern and Western Philosophies, and the simply unusual. We very likely have the oldest books in Greensboro; we keep a nice selection of antiquarian volumes and scholarly books.
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- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- 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....
- 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...