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Glass
by Curtis, Tony
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- GD+/GD+/ND
- ISBN 10
- 0862481074
- ISBN 13
- 9780862481070
- Seller
-
Salisbury, Wiltshire, United Kingdom
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About This Item
HARDBACK SHIPPED FROM THE UK* Edition: 1st Thus.* Impression: 1st * Date of Publication: 1988* Publisher: Lyle Publications.* Binding and cover condition: Colour photo-illustrated glossy boards showing an Almeric Walter pate-de-verre paperweight of a lizard on a rock. Black and white titles to spine and face with a greenish grey ground. Some light shelf wear. GD+.* Jacket condition: No dust jacket. ND.* Contents condition: PRIVATE COPY NOT EX-LIBRARY, clean, crisp, tight and bright. Some age to paper throughout. No inscriptions or annotations, seems lightly used. GD+.* Illustrations: B/w illustrations throughout.* Pages: 252 pp. text. iii pp. Index at rear.* Product description:- "A very useful guide to identifying and pricing glass antiques. Ale glasses, Apothecary Boxes, Baskets, Bells, Biscuit Containers, Bowls, Boxes, Caddies, Candelabra, Candlesticks, the list goes on and on.? This is a NEAR VG text copy with minor age & shelf wear.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Cocksparrow Books
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1392
- Title
- Glass
- Author
- Curtis, Tony
- Format/Binding
- Hardback
- Book Condition
- Used - GD+/GD+/ND
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st. Edn. Thus 1st. Imp.
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0862481074
- ISBN 13
- 9780862481070
- Publisher
- Lyle Publications
- Place of Publication
- Galashiels, Scotland, UK. 255
- Date Published
- 1988-01-01
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Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- ND
- no publisher's date given
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Crisp
- A term often used to indicate a book's new-like condition. Indicates that the hinges are not loosened. A book described as crisp...
- Shelf Wear
- Shelf wear (shelfwear) describes damage caused over time to a book by placing and removing a book from a shelf. This damage is...
- 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....
- VG
- Very Good condition can describe a used book that does show some small signs of wear - but no tears - on either binding or...
- 1st Thus
- This indicates that this is not the first appearance of a book in print, but that this is the first appearance in a...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
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