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The Carillon
by Price, Frank Percival
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Good
- Seller
-
Beloit, Wisconsin, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
London: Oxford University Press, 1933. Scholarly study of bells, bell towers, bell music, bell-founding, the construction & playing of carillons, carilloneurs, their audience, future of the art; extant and lost carillons. Hardcover, full blue cloth, black titling. Light wear to book, bookplate, old seller's note/price in pencil; jacket shows some chipping, price-reduction label to spine, a few light stains; endsheets tanned. Text clean; [12], 228 pages, 37 b/w plates + map showing the location of Dutch & Belgian carillons then extant.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Good. Illus. by Leonard Eldon Shore. Octavo.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Bookworks MWABA, IOBA
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- s0869jk
- Title
- The Carillon
- Author
- Price, Frank Percival
- Illustrator
- Leonard Eldon Shore
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Good
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1933
- Keywords
- Music, Bells, Bell-Towers
- Bookseller catalogs
- Architecture & Interior Decoration;
- Size
- Octavo
Terms of Sale
Bookworks MWABA, IOBA
All books are subject to prior sale, though we make every effort to keep our inventory current. Books are returnable within ten days with prior notification. We will request extra shipping for large books and sets going to addresses outside the United States.
About the Seller
Bookworks MWABA, IOBA
Biblio member since 2006
Beloit, Wisconsin
About Bookworks MWABA, IOBA
Most of our stock is on-line only, though we have many books in three booths at Angela's Attic Antique Mall, 1020 Gardner Street in South Beloit, Illinois; a booth across the street at the Best of Beloit; and a large booth at the Lake Geneva Antique Mall, 829 Williams Street, Lake Geneva, WI. You may request to see any of our on-line inventory at any location with a few days' notice.
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- 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....
- Bookplate
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- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- 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...
- 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...
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
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