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The Eccentric Teapot: Four Hundred Years of Invention
by Clark, Garth
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- F/VG++/VG
- ISBN 10
- 089659923X
- ISBN 13
- 9780896599239
- Seller
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Salisbury, Wiltshire, United Kingdom
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About This Item
HARDBACK, ?UNCOMMON, SHIPPED FROM THE UK.?* Edn: 1st.* Imp: 4th. with number line.* Date of Publication: 1989* Publisher: Abbeville Press.* Binding and cover condition: Black cloth, red title to spine & face. No bumps or rubs, minimal shelf wear to upper & lower edges and to head and tail of spine. VG++* Jacket condition: Colour photo-illustrated dust wrapper showing a ?Bell-boy? teapot, red titles to spine and face. NOT PRICE CLIPPED, showing a shelf price of $29.95. Slight shelf wear to top & bottom edges and to head & tail of spine. VG* Contents condition: PRIVATE COPY NOT EX-LIBRARY. Clean, crisp, tight and bright with no reading wear, no marks to text, no visible faults. FINE.* Illustrations: Numerous colour & a few b/w photos within text throughout.* Pages: 115 pp. text. vi pp., bibliography, acknowledgements, index & photo-credits at rear.* Description: Subtitled, ?Four Hundred Years of Invention,? the teapots selected for this book include both the delightful and unexpected and are a mixture of rare antiques, one-of-a-kind works by artists, and mass-produced industrial objects. Contemporary works tend to be featured. Perusing the book is a little like going to a surrealist tea party..* A FINE text copy of the 1st/4th fnl. with some minor wear to the jacket reducing it to VG.*
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- Bookseller
- Cocksparrow Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 5419
- Title
- The Eccentric Teapot: Four Hundred Years of Invention
- Author
- Clark, Garth
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - F/VG++/VG
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st. Edn, 4th. Imp.
- ISBN 10
- 089659923X
- ISBN 13
- 9780896599239
- Publisher
- Abbeville Press Inc.,U.S.
- Place of Publication
- N.Y. USA. 120
- Date Published
- 1996-04-26
- Size
- 24.1 x 1.9 x 26 cm
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- Number Line
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- Shelf Wear
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- Tail
- The heel of the spine.
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