Championship Carving
by Veasey, Tricia and Tom Johnson
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very good/very good
- Seller
-
Wilmington, Vermont, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
Exton: Schiffer Publishing Ltd, 1984. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good/very good. Folio (9.25" x10.25"), light blue cloth, gilt,in pictorial jacket. Marbled endpapers. 152pp. with index and information about the carvers. Illustrated profusely with detailed color photos of wildfowl carving, decoys etc. by the authors. A beautiful book. "Over 300 color plates depict many of the finest carvings of 1984, including all of the Worls class winners in all three categories: Decorative Lifesize, Floating pairs, and Miniatures." From the Ward Foundation World Championship Carving Competition.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Austin's Antiquarian Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 14839
- Title
- Championship Carving
- Author
- Veasey, Tricia and Tom Johnson
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very good
- Jacket Condition
- very good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Schiffer Publishing Ltd
- Place of Publication
- Exton
- Date Published
- 1984
- Keywords
- Sporting; Decoratie Arts; Carving; Wildfowl Carving; Decoys
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About the Seller
Austin's Antiquarian Books
Biblio member since 2005
Wilmington, Vermont
About Austin's Antiquarian Books
Austin's Antiquarian Books is a used, rare and out of print bookshop located on West Main Street in Wilmington, Vermont. At our shop we have a general stock of approximately 15,000 used, scarce and out-of-print books, with particular strength in American History, especially Theodore Roosevelt the West, Travel, Decorative Arts, Natural History, and Sporting. We also offer a selection of antique maps and prints, historical paper and ephemera.
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- 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...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Folio
- A folio usually indicates a large book size of 15" in height or larger when used in the context of a book description. Further,...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- 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...