Macmillan and Co.,Ltd, 1947. Hardcover. Good/Acceptable. 1947. Fourth Edition. 699 pages. Illustrated dust jacket over green cloth boards. Gilt lettering. Contains black and white illustrations. Clean pages and illustrations with light tanning and mild foxing throughout. More pronounced to free endpapers and pastedowns. Hinges are slightly cracked with exposed netting. Binding remains firm. Boards have mild edge-wear with slight rubbing to surfaces and bumping to corners. Gilt lettering is darkened. Moderate sunning to spine and edges with crushing to spine ends. Visible wear marks to boards. Unclipped jacket. Panels and spine have light edgewear with tears and creases. Minor loss to spine and edges. Moderate tanning and wear marks to flaps, panels and spine.

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Bookseller: World of Rare Books (GB)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 1717406627DPB
Title: Botany of the Living Plant
Author: F.O.Bower
Format/Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Used - Good/Acceptable
Quantity Available: 1
Publisher: Macmillan and Co.,Ltd
Date Published: 1947

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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....
Jacket: Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
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...
Flap(s): The portion of a book cover or cover jacket that folds into the book from front to back. The flap can contain biographical...
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,...
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...
Cloth: "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...