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Great Contemporaries
de Winston S. Churchill
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- Aceptable
- Tapa dura
- Estado
- Acceptable
- Librería
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Goring-by-Sea, West Sussex, United Kingdom
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Sobre este artículo
Thornton Butterworth Ltd., London, 1938. Hardcover. Acceptable. 1938. Fourth Impression. 334 pages. No dust jacket. Blue cloth with gilt lettering. B&W photographs throughout. Large ink stain to page 79 and opposite plate, and does cover the text. Notable foxing and tanning to endpapers and page edges. Some gutter cracking. Name plate to front paste down, with inscription to endpaper. Mild wear and bumping to spine, board edges and corners, with scuffing, staining and marking to boards. Notable sunning to spine and board edges. Book has a forward lean.
Sinopsis
Great Contemporaries is a collection of 25 short biographical essays about famous people written by Winston Churchill. The original collection of 21 essays published in 1937 were mainly written between 1928 and 1931. Four were added to the book in the 1939 edition, about Lord Fisher, Charles Stewart Parnell, Lord Baden-Powell and Franklin D. Roosevelt.
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Detalles
- Librería
- World of Rare Books
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- Inventario del vendedor #
- 1676625618IEV
- Título
- Great Contemporaries
- Autor
- Winston S. Churchill
- Formato/Encuadernación
- Tapa dura
- Estado del libro
- Usado - Acceptable
- Cantidad disponible
- 1
- Editorial
- Thornton Butterworth Ltd., London
- Fecha de publicación
- 1938
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- Plate
- Full page illustration or photograph. Plates are printed separately from the text of the book, and bound in at production. I.e.,...
- Jacket
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- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- 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...
- 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....
- Gutter
- The inside margin of a book, connecting the pages to the joints near the binding.
- Acceptable
- A non-traditional book condition description that generally refers to a book in readable condition, although no standard exists...
- 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...
