Fine Bookbinding in the Twentieth Century
by Lewis, Roy Harley
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Fine/Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0668060840
- ISBN 13
- 9780668060844
- Seller
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Staten Island, New York, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
New York: Arco Publishing Company Inc., 1985. Large quarto hardcover in original non price-clipped dust-jacket. 151pp., Glossary, Selected Bibliography, Index. Illustrated with 33 color and 82 monchrome photographs. First American edition thus. A look at the growing number of highly skilled designer-bookbinders of the twentieth century, the first monogrtaphy of its kind, chronicling the craftmanship and beautiful, stimulating, sometiomes controversial, designs of a new era of artists. An invaluable referencve source in a field not so far documented. No previous ownership marks. Small remainder dot at lower edge, as per usual with this title. Dust-jacket protected in mylar cover. A very fine copy in a fine dust-jacket.. First Thus. Cloth. Very Fine/Fine. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Great Expectations Rare Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 005987
- Title
- Fine Bookbinding in the Twentieth Century
- Author
- Lewis, Roy Harley
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Fine
- Edition
- First Thus
- ISBN 10
- 0668060840
- ISBN 13
- 9780668060844
- Publisher
- Arco Publishing Company Inc.
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1985
- Keywords
- Bookbinding, Custom Binding, Fine Bindings
- Bookseller catalogs
- Books About Books;
- Size
- 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Great Expectations Rare Books
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Staten Island, New York
About Great Expectations Rare Books
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- Cloth
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- Fine
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- Remainder
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