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Grand Strategy; Volume 1: Rearmament Policy
by N. H. Gibbs
- Used
- Good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good
- Seller
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Goring-by-Sea, West Sussex, United Kingdom
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About This Item
Her Majesty's Stationery Office, 1976. Hardcover. Good. 1976. First Published. 859 pages. No dust jacket. This is an ex-Library book. Green cloth with gilt lettering.Ex-Library copy, with expected inserts, stamps and inscriptions. Volume 1. Pages are bright with mild foxing and tanning to text block edges. Annotations, underlining and marginalia in pencil throughout; text remains unaffected. Light cracking to gutters and hinges but binding remains firm. Boards have minor corner bumping and edgewear with mild sunning, tape staining and scuffing overall. Spine has heavier sunning with soft rubbing and crushing to ends. Lettering remains bright and clear. Book has a slight forward lean.
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Details
- Seller
- World of Rare Books
(GB)
- Seller's Inventory #
- 1718966039BDB
- Title
- Grand Strategy; Volume 1: Rearmament Policy
- Author
- N. H. Gibbs
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Her Majesty's Stationery Office
- Date Published
- 1976
Terms of Sale
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Goring-by-Sea, West Sussex
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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....
- 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...
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- 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....
- 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...
- Marginalia
- Marginalia, in brief, are notes written in the margins, or beside the text of a book by a previous owner. This is very...
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