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HORTUS SECOND: A CONCISE DICTIONARY OF GARDENING, GENERAL HORTICULTURE AND CULTIVATED PLANTS IN NORTH AMERICS
by L. H. Bailey, Ethel Zoe Bailey
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Pomona, New York, United States
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About This Item
New York: MacMillan Company. 1960. Revised Edition; Eleventh Printing. Hardcover. Good+ in a Fair dust jacket. FEP torn out. Large tears on front and rear panel side edges. Open tears on spine crown and heel and bottom front panel and front and rear panel top corners. Small closed tears on top and bottom rear panel. Water staining on front panel side edge. Light foxing on text block edges. .
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- Bookseller
- Rare Book Cellar
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 310338
- Title
- HORTUS SECOND: A CONCISE DICTIONARY OF GARDENING, GENERAL HORTICULTURE AND CULTIVATED PLANTS IN NORTH AMERICS
- Author
- L. H. Bailey, Ethel Zoe Bailey
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used
- Edition
- Revised Edition; Eleventh Printing
- Publisher
- MacMillan Company
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1960
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- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Heel
- The lower most portion of the spine when the book is standing vertically.
- Good+
- A term used to denote a condition a slight grade better than Good.
- 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....
- Fair
- is a worn book that has complete text pages (including those with maps or plates) but may lack endpapers, half-title, etc....
- 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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