Antiques You Can Decorate With
by George Grotz
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good
- Seller
-
WINFIELD, Kansas, United States
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About This Item
Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, 1966 Doubleday & Company, Garden City, NY. 1966. Hardcover. Edition not stated. Book is tight, square, and unmarked. Book Condition: Very Good; bumping to head, tail, and tips. DJ: Very Good -; NOT Price Clipped ($5.50) but does not carry the title initials as other copies; chipping and small closed tears at head and tail; light wear at tips; toning to spine. Two tone gray cloth boards and spine with red and black lettering on the spine and furniture pictures on the front board. 296 pp 8vo. This is a realistic guide to middle-price-range antiques that tells the potential buyer where to go, how much to pay, how to refinish, and how to avoid the fakes. With more than 400 drawings this book covers the whole gamut of old pieces. A humorous and well-documented account that does much to undo the myths, misconceptions, frauds, and just plain mistakes that surround the world of Antiques today. A clean very presentable copy in a Brodart mylar jacket.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Walnut Valley Books/Books by White (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 010288
- Title
- Antiques You Can Decorate With
- Author
- George Grotz
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Doubleday & Company
- Place of Publication
- Garden City, NY
- Date Published
- 1966
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- antiques, furniture, old furniture, refinishing furniture, wood, wood furniture, home decorating, interior decorating, antique values, Victorian Furniture, George Grotz
- Bookseller catalogs
- Americana; Architecture/Design;
Terms of Sale
Walnut Valley Books/Books by White
30 day return guarantee, with full refund including original shipping costs for up to 30 days after delivery if an item arrives misdescribed or in the unfortunate event, damaged. All books are packed and wrapped with care to avoid shifting during shipment and edge/tip strikes during the mailing process.
About the Seller
Walnut Valley Books/Books by White
Biblio member since 2018
WINFIELD, Kansas
About Walnut Valley Books/Books by White
Walnut Valley Books is a small independent home-based business with the bulk of my holdings being of an American military nature covering everything from the Revolutionary War to the current wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. I also have holdings of books on the Middle East, the southwestern United States (New Mexico especially, Kansas related titles, Oklahoma related titles, and other regionally specialized books. All of my holdings are hand-selected to be good quality books of interest to the reader, historian, or the collector. In addition to the above, you will also find a wide range of other topics such as Medical, US History, autobiographical, biographical, sports, women's studies, and many other eclectic topics.
Glossary
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- Price Clipped
- When a book is described as price-clipped, it indicates that the portion of the dust jacket flap that has the publisher's...
- Brodart
- Generally used to refer to a clear plastic cover that is sometimes added to the dustjacket or outside covering of a book. The...
- Chipping
- A defect in which small pieces are missing from the edges; fraying or small pieces of paper missing the edge of a paperback, or...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Tail
- The heel of the spine.
- 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....