A Book of Famous Explorers (Young Folks' Library, Fourth Edition)
by Edwin Erle Sparks
- Used
- Acceptable
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Acceptable
- Seller
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Goring-by-Sea, West Sussex, United Kingdom
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About This Item
Auxiliary Educational League, 1944. Hardcover. Acceptable. 1944. No Edition Remarks. 386 pages. No dust jacket. Decorated brown cloth. Young Folks' Library, Fourth Edition. Contains colour illustrated plates. Pages are moderately tanned and foxed throughout. Cracking to gutters of a few pages with exposed binding. Some scuffing and small tears to edges of pages. Minor pencil inscription to front free endpaper. Cracking to hinges with exposed binding, causing boards to be loose. Binding is shaky. Scuffing to text-block edges. Boards have moderate edge wear with bumping to corners and rubbing to surfaces. Crushing to spine ends with some loss, splits and fraying to cloth. Moderate tanning to spine and edges. Dark rubbed marking overall.
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- Bookseller
- World of Rare Books (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1651178294LEE
- Title
- A Book of Famous Explorers (Young Folks' Library, Fourth Edition)
- Author
- Edwin Erle Sparks
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Acceptable
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Auxiliary Educational League
- Date Published
- 1944
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- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Acceptable
- A non-traditional book condition description that generally refers to a book in readable condition, although no standard exists...
- 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....
- Foxed
- Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...
- 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...
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...