Christie's Pictorial History of Chinese Ceramics
by Du Boulay, Anthony
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0714880159
- ISBN 13
- 9780714880150
- Seller
-
Houston, Texas, United States
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About This Item
Phaidon/Christie's Ltd., Oxford, 1984. Book. Very Good. Cloth. 319 pages. Hardcover, bound in green cloth covered boards and wrapped in an illustrated paper dustjacket. Previous owner's name is inscribed in ink and stamped on the front free endpaper, with some soiling and shelfwear, handling wear to the edges of the dustjacket, with associated rubbing. Else, the binding is tight and solid, with sharp edges and corners of the boards and a clean, (aside from the aforementioned) unmarked interior. Over one thousand illustrations with 250 in color. Chronology. List of Further Reading. Glossary and Index. Text in English..
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- Bookseller
- Exquisite Corpse, Booksellers (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 020263
- Title
- Christie's Pictorial History of Chinese Ceramics
- Author
- Du Boulay, Anthony
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0714880159
- ISBN 13
- 9780714880150
- Publisher
- Phaidon/Christie's Ltd., Oxford
- Place of Publication
- Oxford
- Date Published
- 1984
- Bookseller catalogs
- Decorative Arts;
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- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.