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SKATEBOARD: A Step-By-Step Guide to Improving Your Technique
by Kane, Steven
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fine in like jacket.
- ISBN 10
- 0831778539
- ISBN 13
- 9780831778538
- Seller
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Silver Spring, Maryland, United States
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About This Item
New York: Gallery Books, 1989. Fine in like jacket.. First edition of a colorfully illustrated how-to guide by one of the pioneers of skateboarding in the UK. Kane is noted for popularizing skateboarding in the UK and for being the first person documented performing a flip trick, published in the pages of SKATEBOARD! magazine in the late 1970s. He would later go on to edit the second generation of the magazine from 1988-1990, during which this title was published. A sharp copy of an uncommon title. 11.75'' x 8.75''. Original blue publisher's cloth binding with white titles to spine. Original color pictorial dust jacket. Illustrated in color throughout. 96 pages. Negligible bumping to corners and spine ends. A sharp and vibrant copy.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Brian Cassidy Bookseller at Type Punch Matrix
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 40650
- Title
- SKATEBOARD: A Step-By-Step Guide to Improving Your Technique
- Author
- Kane, Steven
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine in like jacket.
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0831778539
- ISBN 13
- 9780831778538
- Publisher
- Gallery Books
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1989
- Keywords
- 20th century,Counterculture
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Brian Cassidy Bookseller at Type Punch Matrix
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About the Seller
Brian Cassidy Bookseller at Type Punch Matrix
Biblio member since 2004
Silver Spring, Maryland
About Brian Cassidy Bookseller at Type Punch Matrix
Brian Cassidy Bookseller is the counterculture department of Type Punch Matrix, a rare book firm founded in 2019 by Rebecca Romney and Brian Cassidy. BCB @ TPM specializes in the avant garde in all its various guises, including: The Beats; artists' books; poetry; small journals and magazines (especially those associated with the Mimeo Revolution); modern and contemprary art; photography; music; archives and appraisals; as well as vernacular, folk, and outsider books of all kinds. We are always looking to purchase books within my areas of interest, from single titles to collections. Please inquire. We are open by appointment and are easily accessible by public transit.
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