Country Life Limited. Very Good- in Fair dust jacket. 1944. Hardback. Please note that this is a heavy item and may require extra postage for international shipping.; Dust jacket wrapped in a removable archival sleeve, the top 1/4 of the spine has been lost, otherwise only light rubbing and shelving wear to the edges with a small tear to the rear top corner; Boards bright and clean, bound in teal cloth with an embossed design, corners bumped, gilt titles bright; Internally clean, no ownership signature or annotation, generously illustrated with B+W plates, the previous owner has written Herbert Baker's dates (1862-1946) under his name on the title page, around six newspaper clippings of various obituaries have been loosely inserted; Binding tight. Overall a nice, sturdy and clean copy.; 25 x 20 x 4 cm; 224 pages .

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Bookseller: Walden Books (GB)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 44354
Title: Architecture and Personalities
Author: Baker, Herbert
Format/Binding: Hardback
Book Condition: Used - Very Good- in Fair dust jacket
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Country Life Limited
Date Published: 1944

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Jacket: Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
Title Page: A page at the front of a book which may contain the title of the book, any subtitles, the authors, contributors, editors, the...
Fair: is a worn book that has complete text pages (including those with maps or plates) but may lack endpapers, half-title, etc....
Gilt: The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
Cloth: "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
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....
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...
Tight: Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
Rubbing: Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.