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Care and Repair of Antiques
by Thomas H. Ormsbee
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good/Good
- Seller
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WINFIELD, Kansas, United States
Item Price
NZ$8.29NZ$5.80
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About This Item
New York, NY: Gramercy Publishing Company, 1949 Gramercy Publishing Company, New York. c1949. Hardcover. Reprint edition. Book is tight, square, and unmarked. Book Condition: Very Good +; light shelfwear; light bumping to head and tail. DJ: Good; bumping along top edge; chipping at head and tail; price tag scar on rear panel. Yellow paper over boards and spine with bright black lettering on the spine. 168 pp 8vo. This is the first book of its kind that helps a person with the repair and care of antiques as practiced by an expert in the field. It teaches how to keep old furniture in good condition with oil and wax, restore broken and neglected pieces; how to repair and enhance the luster in silver, brass, copper, old paintings, and how to detect fakes and reconstructed pieces. A clean very presentable copy in a Brodart mylar jacket.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Walnut Valley Books/Books by White
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 012296
- Title
- Care and Repair of Antiques
- Author
- Thomas H. Ormsbee
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Reprint Edition
- Publisher
- Gramercy Publishing Company
- Place of Publication
- New York, NY
- Date Published
- 1949
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- antiques, woodwork, wooden furniture, antique furniture, pewter, silver, copper, furniture restoration, furniture finishes,
- Bookseller catalogs
- Americana;
Terms of Sale
Walnut Valley Books/Books by White
30 day return guarantee, with full refund including original shipping costs for up to 30 days after delivery if an item arrives misdescribed or in the unfortunate event, damaged. All books are packed and wrapped with care to avoid shifting during shipment and edge/tip strikes during the mailing process.
About the Seller
Walnut Valley Books/Books by White
Biblio member since 2018
WINFIELD, Kansas
About Walnut Valley Books/Books by White
Walnut Valley Books is a small independent home-based business with the bulk of my holdings being of an American military nature covering everything from the Revolutionary War to the current wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. I also have holdings of books on the Middle East, the southwestern United States (New Mexico especially, Kansas related titles, Oklahoma related titles, and other regionally specialized books. All of my holdings are hand-selected to be good quality books of interest to the reader, historian, or the collector. In addition to the above, you will also find a wide range of other topics such as Medical, US History, autobiographical, biographical, sports, women's studies, and many other eclectic topics.
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Reprint
- Any printing of a book which follows the original edition. By definition, a reprint is not a first edition.
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Tail
- The heel of the spine.
- Chipping
- A defect in which small pieces are missing from the edges; fraying or small pieces of paper missing the edge of a paperback, or...
- Brodart
- Generally used to refer to a clear plastic cover that is sometimes added to the dustjacket or outside covering of a book. The...
- 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....
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
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