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Decorating With Paint & Wallcovering.
ISBN: 0865737029
ISBN-13: 9780865737020
Format: Hardcover
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Bibliographic Details
Publisher: Quayside Pub Group
Published date: 1988
Size: 8.25 x 11 inches
Weight: 1.15 pounds
Publisher's Notes
With more than 380 color how-to photos, Decorating With Paint & Wallcovering presents all the practical, timesaving techniques used by professional painters and wallcovering specialists.
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Minnetonka, Minn.: Cy DeCosse Inc., 1988 128 pages, purple pictorial cover with white ltrs, corners and head-heel of spine are bumped, covers scruffed. . Unknown Edition. Hardcover. G++. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. ( more information)
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