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The Drove Roads of Scotland
by Haldane, A.R.B
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good- in Fair dust jacket
- Seller
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Campbeltown, Argyll and Bute, United Kingdom
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About This Item
United Kingdom: Nelson. Very Good- in Fair dust jacket. 1960. First Edition; Reprint. Hardcover. About Very Good 1960 reprint hardcover in Fair dustjacket. Clean blue cloth boards, bumped to spine tail. Some light rubbing to extremities. Edges lightly foxed, top edge stained blue. Internally, no writing or stamps. Clean, bright pages. Foldout map missing. Price-clipped dustjacket (publisher's price label to front flap) bumped and rubbed to extremities. Some chipping to edges, with losses, repaired internally. ; B&W Photographs; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 266 pages .
Synopsis
Originally published: London: Nelson, 1952. Includes bibliographical references (p. 245-253) and index.
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Details
- Bookseller
- The Old Bookshelf
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 61250
- Title
- The Drove Roads of Scotland
- Author
- Haldane, A.R.B
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good- in Fair dust jacket
- Edition
- First Edition; Reprint
- Publisher
- Nelson
- Place of Publication
- United Kingdom
- Date Published
- 1960
- Keywords
- Scottish History, Cattle Droving, Drove Roads
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
The Old Bookshelf
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Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- 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....
- Tail
- The heel of the spine.
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- 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...
- Chipping
- A defect in which small pieces are missing from the edges; fraying or small pieces of paper missing the edge of a paperback, or...
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- Fair
- is a worn book that has complete text pages (including those with maps or plates) but may lack endpapers, half-title, etc....
- Reprint
- Any printing of a book which follows the original edition. By definition, a reprint is not a first edition.
- Foxed
- Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
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