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American Furniture by Bowman, John S
- Bookseller: Book-bye-Book
(US)
- Seller Inventory #: 005148
- Format: Hardcover
- Book condition: Very Good
- Jacket condition: Very Good
- Binding: Hardcover
- ISBN 10: 0671075780
- ISBN 13: 9780671075781
- Publisher: Exeter Books
- Place: New York
- Date published: 1985
Description
New York: Exeter Books, 1985. Copy is very clean and bright with minor shelf and edge wear. DJ and rear board are water stained along top edge. Rear board also has a few indentations. No pages are affected Flawless full page color plates. Entire text printed on glossy stock. . Brown Cloth, Gilt Lettering. Very Good/Very Good. Quarto: 9¾" - 12" Tall.
DJ : Short for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps around the binding of a book.
gilt : Decorative patterns imbedded into the affected portion of a book. Often appears on the boards or the spine, and may be very simple, to elegant, to ludicrous.
plates : Full page illustrations or photographs. Plates are printed separately from the text of the book, and bound in at production. I.e., they are not sewn as parts of gatherings.
Cloth : Generally refers to a hardcover with cloth covering the outside of the book covers.
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