Good taste costs no more by Gump, Richard - 1951

Doubleday, 1951. Hardcover. Good. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

Doubleday, 1951. Hardcover. Acceptable. Missing dust jacket; Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

Garden City: Doubleday & Company, Inc, 1951. Book. Very Good-. Hardcover. First. Red book, white print on the spine, usual library codes, markings, raised seal, etc, including number on spine. Book may have been rebound by library. Top board is slightly warped, and boards are rubbed at the corners and edges of spine. Several spots in text, back inside cover has black residue of check out pocket having been removed. This is about house decoration, furniture, etc with illustrations of historical objects..

Doubleday. Used - Very Good. Very Good condition. Acceptable dust jacket. (aesthetics, industrial design, art, collectors and collecting ) A copy that may have a few cosmetic defects. May also contain light spine creasing or a few markings such as an owner’s name, short gifter’s inscription or light stamp. Bundled media such as CDs, DVDs, floppy disks or access codes may not be included.

Doubleday and Company, 1951. Hardcover. Good. 1951. First Edition. 183 pages. No dust jacket. Red and grey cloth. Pages are lightly tanned and thumbed at the edges, with light foxing. Binding has remained firm. Boards are a little rub worn, slight shelf wear to corners, spine and edges. Corners are a little bumped. Spine ends are mildly crushed. Light tanning to spine and edges. Boards are bowed. Book has a forward lean.

Doubleday & Company, 1951. Hardcover. Near Fine in Very Good DJ. Early printing, near fine cloth hardcover shows just a touch of wear, in very good price-clipped dust jacket that shows edgewear that includes wrinkling and small closed tears. 185 pages with black & white illustrations. Still a pleasing copy of this still relevant work where-in the author "..offers a ruthless but readable appraisal of the home furnishings field, exposing the tricks of the trade which most often lead the customer astray, and debunking many of the tenets which are wrongly considered indicative of high value.

New York: Doubleday, 1951. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Near Fine/Good. 185 Pp. Grey And Red Cloth Lettered In Black. First Edition Stated. Near Fine. Dust Jacket Worn And Lightly Soiled, Small Chips And Tears At Edges. Interesting Artifact Of Post-Wwii California Instruction From An Iconic Middle-To-Higher End San Francisco Retailer (Gump's) Could Address The Massive Influx Of People In California Already, Or Arriving Post-War, With Few Personal Treasures, Who Needed Almost All Furniture And Decorations, And Were Separated From Existing Social Opinions And Norms, I. E. Babes In The Woods. His Popularity Resulted In Gump's Objects Dispersed Throughout California To An Unprecedented Degree, Although Few Are Treasured By Their Heirs And Almost None Will Ever Find Their Way Into Museums Of The Future.

NY: Doubleday. Very Good+ in Good+ dust jacket. 1951. First Edition. Hardcover. Publisher's cloth. Stated first edition. Inscribed to the half title page by Gump. Slight foxing to edges, slight corner wear. Firm and square. The DJ in mylar is soiled/edgeworn. ; Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; 185 pages; Signed by Author .

Doubleday & Company, Inc. Collectible - Good. Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1951. Presumed 1st. 8vo. 185pp. Illus. Good book. Good dust jacket. Small tears in lower edge, back panel of unclipped dust jacket. Spine slanted. Owner's name on pastedown. Some underlining inside. (design, aesthetics) Inquire if you need further information.