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Magnificent China: Commemorating the 40th Anniversary of "The Young Companion Pictorial
by Wu, Luen Tak (Ed.)
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good
- Seller
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Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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About This Item
Hong Kong: The Liang You Book Company, 1968. Second Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Second edition. Folio. 524pp. Embroidered turqoise silk with beveled edges two threads sticking out on the spine and another on the rear. Clean pictorial dust jacket, lightly bumped at the corners, head and heel. Former owner's bookplate on the first blank. Both colour and black and white photographs of China. Text in both English and Chinese. A magnificent, oversized book.
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- Bookseller
- Karol Krysik Books, ABAC/ILAB, IOBA, PBFA
(CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 43675
- Title
- Magnificent China: Commemorating the 40th Anniversary of "The Young Companion Pictorial
- Author
- Wu, Luen Tak (Ed.)
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Second Edition
- Publisher
- The Liang You Book Company
- Place of Publication
- Hong Kong
- Date Published
- 1968
Terms of Sale
Karol Krysik Books, ABAC/ILAB, IOBA, PBFA
30 day return guarantee, with full refund including original shipping costs for up to 30 days after delivery if an item arrives misdescribed or damaged.
About the Seller
Karol Krysik Books, ABAC/ILAB, IOBA, PBFA
Biblio member since 2012
Toronto, Ontario
About Karol Krysik Books, ABAC/ILAB, IOBA, PBFA
Interesting and unusual books and printed matter. Visual items, illustrated books, private press, mythology/folklore, modern first editions. Member of the Antiquarian Booksellers Association of Canada (ABAC) and theIndependent Online Booksellers Association (IOBA)
Glossary
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- Heel
- The lower most portion of the spine when the book is standing vertically.
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Beveled
- Beveled edges, or beveled boards, describe a technique of binding in which the edges of book boards have been cut into slanted...
- 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....
- Bookplate
- Highly sought after by some collectors, a book plate is an inscribed or decorative device that identifies the owner, or former...
- Folio
- A folio usually indicates a large book size of 15" in height or larger when used in the context of a book description. Further,...
- 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...
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