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The Great Bronze Age of China: An exhibition from the People's Republic of China
by Fong, Wen [Editor]
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine/Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0870992260
- ISBN 13
- 9780870992261
- Seller
-
Staten Island, New York, United States
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About This Item
New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art / Alfred A. Knopf, Inc., 1980. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. First Edition. Folio - over 12 - 15" tall. Large format hardcover, blue cloth lettered in gold on spine and front cover, in publisher's pictorial dust-jacket. Glossary Bibliography. Profusely illustrated with 121 color-plates, 130 black and white illustrations, 10 maps and 2 tables. First edition. Folding map of China's administrative divisions and small folding exhibition brochure laid-in. Published in conjunction with the exhibition that ran from April of 1980 to September of 1981, visiting five museums in all. No previous ownership marks. A square, tight, clean and unmarked copy. Near fine in a very good or better dust-jacket. A large, heavy book, Priority and International orders will require additional postage, calculated as close to actual cost as possible. .
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- Bookseller
- Great Expectations Rare Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 019403
- Title
- The Great Bronze Age of China: An exhibition from the People's Republic of China
- Author
- Fong, Wen [Editor]
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0870992260
- ISBN 13
- 9780870992261
- Publisher
- Metropolitan Museum of Art / Alfred A. Knopf, Inc.
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1980
- Keywords
- Ancient Chinese Art, Art History
- Bookseller catalogs
- Art;
- Size
- Folio - over 12 - 15" tall
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Staten Island, New York
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- Cloth
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- Tight
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- Fine
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