Antique Jade
by Luzzatto-Bilitz, Oscar
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good Condition/Fair
- Seller
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King River, Western Australia, Australia
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
Paul Hamlyn, Middlesex, 1969. First Edition. Hardcover. Good Condition/Fair. This is the first edition in the English language. Size: 12mo Small. 158 pages. Text body is clean, and free from previous owner annotation, underlining and highlighting. Binding is tight, covers and spine fully intact. No foxing in this copy. Dust Jacket is fully intact, but has small holes or chips down flap edges and other signs of wear to top and bottom edges, corners etc. Edges browned slightly. This book is available and ready to be shipped.. This book includes 71 illustrations with accompanying text, providing examples of jade and Jade carvings not only from China but also pre-Columbian America and New Zealand. Featured pieces hail from Maori and Mayan cultures as well as the Ch'ing, Ming, Sung, T'ang, Han, and Chou periods. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 500 grams. Category: Antiques & Collectibles; Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 7561. .
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Details
- Bookseller
- Great Southern Books (AU)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 7561
- Title
- Antique Jade
- Author
- Luzzatto-Bilitz, Oscar
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good Condition
- Jacket Condition
- Fair
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Paul Hamlyn
- Place of Publication
- Middlesex
- Date Published
- 1969
- Keywords
- BZDB137 jade, art, carving, jewelry, china, new zealand, Antiques & Collectibles; Luzzatto-Bilitz, Oscar Antique Jade
Terms of Sale
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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
Great Southern Books
Biblio member since 2012
King River, Western Australia
About Great Southern Books
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Glossary
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- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- 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....
- 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"...
- 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...
- 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...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...