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Borromini
by Blunt, Anthony
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good in Very Good dust jacket
- ISBN 10
- 0713910259
- ISBN 13
- 9780713910254
- Seller
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London, Greater London, United Kingdom
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
Penguin. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1979. First Edition. Hardback. 0713910259 . Dust jacket lightly age-toned, bumped on bottom right corner of front panel w/ minute split, a touch sunned at head of rear panel and on spine; Brown cloth boards, slight shelving-wear to spine, gilt lettering bright; Page edges dusty, previous owner's signature in prelims, no annotation, B&W plates; Binding tight. ; 6.5 x 9.5"; 240 pages .
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Details
- Bookseller
- Walden Books
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 50640
- Title
- Borromini
- Author
- Blunt, Anthony
- Format/Binding
- Hardback
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good in Very Good dust jacket
- Edition
- First Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0713910259
- ISBN 13
- 9780713910254
- Publisher
- Penguin
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1979
- Keywords
- 0713910259
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Walden Books
Biblio member since 2010
London, Greater London
About Walden Books
Second-hand and antiquarian booksellers since 1977, in present shop since 1979, open Thurs-Sunday, with an emphasis on History of Art and Architecture, Photography, Literature and Poetry, Literary Biography and Criticism and the the History of London.
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- Cloth
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- Jacket
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- First Edition
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- Sunned
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- Edges
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- 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....
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