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On Escalation: Metaphors and Scenarios
by Kahn, Herman
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- Good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good
- Seller
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nr Canterbury, Kent, United Kingdom
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About This Item
New York, NY, USA: Frederick A Praeger, 1965. Hardcover. Good. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. xviii, 308pp. Blue cloth-covered boards, gilt titles on front and spine, grey endpapers. 8vo. Slightly sun-faded spine; rubbed corners and spine ends, cloth wearing; bottom edges lightly bumped, shelf number label taped to spine. Lender's rubber stamp to top text block edge, all edges tanning. Lender's stamps, security device and markings on endpapers and copyright page; gutter cracked and stained at title page, volume quite loose, page starting to tan otherwise internally neat, clean and tight.
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- Bookseller
- BookAddiction
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 024014
- Title
- On Escalation: Metaphors and Scenarios
- Author
- Kahn, Herman
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Frederick A Praeger
- Place of Publication
- New York, NY, USA
- Date Published
- 1965
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall
- Weight
- 1.98 lbs
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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....
- Cracked
- In reference to a hinge or a book's binding, means that the glue which holds the opposing leaves has allowed them to separate,...
- Gutter
- The inside margin of a book, connecting the pages to the joints near the binding.
- Title Page
- A page at the front of a book which may contain the title of the book, any subtitles, the authors, contributors, editors, the...
- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- 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...
- 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....
- Device
- Especially for older books, a printer's device refers to an identifying mark, also sometimes called a printer's mark, on the...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
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