Practical Collecting
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Fair to Good/No Jacket
- Seller
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Saint John, New Brunswick, Canada
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
London: Hodder & Stoughton, Limited Book. Fair to Good. Hardcover. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. No information as to author is given. Date of writing is 1920. Page edges are heavily spotted with foxing. The author begins a discussion on furnishing a hall with an attack on the combined hat rack- umbrella stand. The dining room described has no comfortable chairs. The drawing room is renamed sitting room. It contains a grandfather clock, a bookcase of 300 books, a Bible box on a stand, a "cricket " or tea table, and a Chippendale mirror over the fireplace. The rest of the book compares various woods. 223 pp..
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Details
- Bookseller
- Dave Shoots, Bookseller (CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 012720
- Title
- Practical Collecting
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fair to Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Publisher
- Hodder & Stoughton, Limited
- Place of Publication
- London
- Size
- 12mo - over 6¾" - 7&
- Keywords
- NOISBN Antiques.
- Bookseller catalogs
- Antiques;
Terms of Sale
Dave Shoots, Bookseller
In case of returns, seller will refund purchase price and initial shipping cost provided merchandise is returned in good condition within 14 days of sale. Payment methods accepted: Visa, MasterCard, American Express, PayPal (to daveshoots@nb.aibn.com), cash, cheque or money order. 20% discount to the trade. Books will be shipped as customer prefers upon receipt of purchase price and shipping costs. PLEASE LET US KNOW WHEN YOU RECEIVE YOUR BOOK. THANKS!
About the Seller
Dave Shoots, Bookseller
Biblio member since 2004
Saint John, New Brunswick
About Dave Shoots, Bookseller
We have been booksellers since 2000. We deal in old and rare hardcovers, primarily non-fiction. We have about 10,000 books in four rooms of an 1820's mansion located in Saint John, New Brunswick, Canada.
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- 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...
- Fair
- is a worn book that has complete text pages (including those with maps or plates) but may lack endpapers, half-title, etc....
- 12mo
- A duodecimo is a book approximately 7 by 4.5 inches in size, or similar in size to a contemporary mass market paperback. Also...