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The Visible Word
by Spencer, Herbert
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good in Good dust jacket/Good
- Seller
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Iowa City, Iowa, United States
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About This Item
New York: Hastings House, 1969. Second Edition. Cloth Hardcover. Good in Good dust jacket/Good. Pages clean except for thumbing bends at the top free corners and light foxing along the fore- and head edges. Smyth-sewn binding is relaxed, but secure. Black hard cover shows a small, clear droplet mark at the upper rear, a bump with accompanying softening and creasing at the spine head, taps and inward turns at the corners, and some softening at the spine heel along with mild shelf-rubbing at the bottom edges, corners, and spine ends, otherwise sound. Green dustjacket shows a surface scuff with two spots of darkening at the middle front, short tears with heavy creasing between at the spine head and some edgewear along the head edges, an open chip and modest wrinkling at the spine heel, a few clear drip spots on the rear, and some shelfwear around the corners, otherwise bright, attractive, unclipped, and now protected in an archivally safe, removable sleeve. 107pp. An investigation of print-legibility research and typographic attempts to improve legibility.
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Details
- Bookseller
- The Haunted Bookshop, LLC
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 066495
- Title
- The Visible Word
- Author
- Spencer, Herbert
- Format/Binding
- Cloth Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good in Good dust jacket
- Jacket Condition
- Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Second Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Hastings House
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1969
Terms of Sale
The Haunted Bookshop, LLC
RETURNS: I will gladly accept returns when returned in "as sold" condition postmarked within 14 days of receipt of shipment. Postage will be refunded only if the return is the result of my error. DEALER DISCOUNT: To bona fide book dealers, I do offer a 10% discount with retail sales tax number. If you qualify, please mention this in your order.
About the Seller
The Haunted Bookshop, LLC
Biblio member since 2005
Iowa City, Iowa
About The Haunted Bookshop, LLC
The Haunted Bookshop is an open shop with over 40,000 quality used, out-of-print, and antiquarian titles for students, scholars, collectors, artists, families and children. The store has been in business for over 35 years, now in a historic home near downtown Iowa City. Our open hours are 10-8 daily.
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Shelfwear
- Minor wear resulting from a book being place on, and taken from a bookshelf, especially along the bottom edge.
- 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...
- 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...
- Heel
- The lower most portion of the spine when the book is standing vertically.
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