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Stairs
by Jansma, Rein
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine
- Seller
-
Madison, Indiana, United States
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About This Item
Amsterdam and New York: Joost Elffers Productions, 1982. First Issue. Hardcover. Small quarto. 10.25 x 7.25 inches. 20 pp (unpaginated). Near Fine. No dust jacket as issued. Original cardboard slipcase. Architectural pop-up book with no text but 10 different configurations of pop-up stairs. Blind stamped linen on boards. Presumed first issue, as no statement of edition present, and stated copyright date of 1982 is consistent auction records. Top board lightly foxed. Scattered internal foxing, notably on pastedowns. Slipcase edge-worn, chipped, and dented (see photos). Rein Jansma is a well-known Dutch architect and founder of the architectural studio ZJA.
Synopsis
An accordian fold pop-up book consisting of 10 staircases. Title and date from slipcase. Issued in slipcase.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Village Lights Bookstore, ABAA/ILAB
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 0000055
- Title
- Stairs
- Author
- Jansma, Rein
- Format/Binding
- Linen on boards
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition, First Printing
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Joost Elffers Productions
- Place of Publication
- Amsterdam and New York
- Date Published
- 1982
- Pages
- 20
- Size
- 4to
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- art, architecture
- Bookseller catalogs
- Architecture;
Terms of Sale
Village Lights Bookstore, ABAA/ILAB
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About the Seller
Village Lights Bookstore, ABAA/ILAB
Biblio member since 2008
Madison, Indiana
About Village Lights Bookstore, ABAA/ILAB
Village Lights Bookstore opened as a brick-and-mortar shop in 2008. We are a "mom & pop" business, and we live in the same building. We are members of the Antiquarian Booksellers Association of America, the International League of Antiquarian Booksellers, the American Booksellers Association, and the Great Lakes Independent Booksellers Association. We offer a modest, but diverse, selection of rare, collectible, and antiquarian items, as well as select higher quality new books. We carefully grade our books in accordance with IOBA Book Condition Definitions (https://www.ioba.org/conditions-definitions), describe them using standard ABAA terminology (https://www.abaa.org/glossary), and painstakingly package them to prevent damage in transit. We value direct communication, so please feel free to call if you have questions about our listings or to confirm that an item is still on hand. And consider visiting us on Main Street in the heart of downtown Madison, Indiana, the country's largest contiguous National Historic Landmark District, and a Designated Indiana Cultural District, on the banks of the beautiful Ohio River.
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- Fine
- A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...
- Jacket
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- Quarto
- The term quarto is used to describe a page or book size. A printed sheet is made with four pages of text on each side, and the...
- New
- A new book is a book previously not circulated to a buyer. Although a new book is typically free of any faults or defects, "new"...
- Foxed
- Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...
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