The Book of Wonders: Gives Plain and Simple Answers to the Thousands of Everyday Questions that are Asked.: Fully Illustrated with Hundreds of Educational Pictures.The Wonders of Nature and the Wonders Produced by Man
Published by Bureau of Industrial Education, Inc., 1915
- Hardcover
- Used
Seller: RPL Library Store, Rochester, NY, U.S.A.RPL Library Store
AbeBooks seller since July 21, 1999
Condition: Used - Fair
£ 7.69
Quantity: 1 available
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FAIR / NO DUST JACKET. 603 pp. Endpapers and final pages are lightly foxed, but pages are otherwise clean, unmarked, and undamaged. Richly illustrated throughout. Front hinge is cracked, but binding is solid. Boards covered in dark red fabric; black and gold stylized owl and earth illustration on front and spine, with gold titling. Spine is faded and blotchy, top and tail quite worn. Right corners of both front and back corner are worn to boards; edges of both covers are shelfworn but rest of cover areas are in reasonable condition for the age of the book.
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Bibliographic details
- Title
- The Book of Wonders: Gives Plain and Simple Answers to the Thousands of Everyday Questions that are Asked.: Fully Illustrated with Hundreds of Educational Pictures.The Wonders of Nature and the Wonders Produced by Man
- Author
- Bodmer, Rudolph J., Editor
- Publisher
- Bureau of Industrial Education, Inc.
- Publication year
- 1915
- Condition
- Fair
- Dust jacket
- No Jacket
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Dimensions
- 6 3/4" x 9 7/8
RPL Library Store
Rochester, NY, U.S.A.
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