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The Irish and Highland Harps
by Armstrong, Robert Bruce
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Near Fine/Near Fine
- Seller
-
Whitby, Ontario, Canada
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
New York: Praeger Publishers, 1969. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 4to. Orig. green cloth. xvi, 199 pp. [37] plate illustrations and diagrams, mostly in B&W with some in colour, several foldouts, plus B&W illustration in text. Spine tilted. Front board slightly bowed, bruising to tail edges of boards, minor wear to upper corners. Dust jacket price clipped, sunned to spine, a few bumps and scuffs, short tears to head of rear cover. Bruce Armstrong's The Irish and Highland Harps is the most important book ever written on the subject. No facet of the harp is omitted. The work includes historical background, minutely detailed descriptions of the harps, fine detailed illustrations of the decorations, examples of the music, and discussion of the method of performance. The fine illustrations and photographs make the work outstanding.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Minotavros Books
(CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 014270
- Title
- The Irish and Highland Harps
- Author
- Armstrong, Robert Bruce
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Near Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Praeger Publishers
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1969
- Keywords
- harps, musical instruments, Robert Bruce Armstrong, Irish Harps, Highland Harps, Seoirse Bodley, music
- Bookseller catalogs
- Ireland; Music;
Terms of Sale
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All prices listed in Canadian dollars. We guarantee that all items are properly packaged and handled with care. Please allow one to two business days for your order to be shipped. Shipping costs are based on books weighing 2.2 LB, or 1 KG. If your book order is heavy or oversized, we may contact you to let you know extra shipping is required. All sales will be shipped with a tracking number for your convenience.
About the Seller
Minotavros Books
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Whitby, Ontario
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Glossary
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- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
- 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....
- Price Clipped
- When a book is described as price-clipped, it indicates that the portion of the dust jacket flap that has the publisher's...
- Fine
- A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Sunned
- Damage done to a book cover or dust jacket caused by exposure to direct sunlight. Very strong fluorescent light can cause slight...
- Bumps
- Indicates that the affected part of the book has been impacted in such a way so as to cause a flattening, indention, or light...
- Tail
- The heel of the spine.
- Plate
- Full page illustration or photograph. Plates are printed separately from the text of the book, and bound in at production. I.e.,...
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