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Venice and Its Story
by Okey, T.; Illustrated by Nelly Erichsen, W.K. Hinchliff and O.F.M. Ward
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good+/Good+
- Seller
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Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States
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About This Item
London: J.M. Dent and Sons, 1930. Revised. Hardcover. Very Good+/Good+. Black stamped green cloth boards in dust jacket, octavo, 325pp., illustrated in color and b&w. Book has mild wear and soil to edges of boards and spine ends, binding tight, endpapers gently foxed, toning throughout, not marked. DJ has chipping and mild loss to edges and spine ends, rubbing and toning, now in archival mylar wrap.
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- Bookseller
- Common Crow Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- B47315
- Title
- Venice and Its Story
- Author
- Okey, T.; Illustrated by Nelly Erichsen, W.K. Hinchliff and O.F.M. Ward
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good+
- Jacket Condition
- Good+
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Revised
- Publisher
- J.M. Dent and Sons
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1930
- Keywords
- Italy, History
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About the Seller
Common Crow Books
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Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- 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...
- Foxed
- Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...
- Chipping
- A defect in which small pieces are missing from the edges; fraying or small pieces of paper missing the edge of a paperback, or...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- 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...
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