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Early American Dress: The Colonial and Revolutionary Periods
by Edward Warwick; Henry C Pitz; Alexander Wyckoff
- Used
- Fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fine/As New
- ISBN 10
- 0517204231
- ISBN 13
- 9780517204238
- Seller
-
Flemington, New Jersey, United States
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About This Item
Hardcover. Fine/As New. Fine, reprint edition / 1st printing, red cloth over boards w gilt font on spine, 428 pps, 200 American portraits + hundreds of precise drawings. Without writing or marks, tight, clean and bright. Former owner's bookplate on front flyleaf. Dust jacket unclipped, bright, without tears, etc and now under mylar wraps. "Much more than a history of costume, to read this book is to enlarge one's understanding of history. The great value of this book is that it gives us our early history as a whole, focusing on clothes, but not isolating them."
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- Bookseller
- BohemianBookworm
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 113781
- Title
- Early American Dress: The Colonial and Revolutionary Periods
- Author
- Edward Warwick; Henry C Pitz; Alexander Wyckoff
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- As New
- Quantity Available
- 1
- ISBN 10
- 0517204231
- ISBN 13
- 9780517204238
- Publisher
- Bonanza Books
- Place of Publication
- New York
- This edition first published
- December 12, 1988
- Keywords
- AMERICANA, FASHION
Terms of Sale
BohemianBookworm
30 day return guarantee, with full refund including original shipping costs for up to 30 days after delivery if an item arrives misdescribed.
About the Seller
BohemianBookworm
Biblio member since 2013
Flemington, New Jersey
About BohemianBookworm
Since 1991 BOHEMIAN BOOKWORM has been pleased to sell rare, vintage, antiquarian and distinctive used books to discriminating bibliophiles and other book and ephemera buyers searching for uncommon 1st editions and "out of print" gently used books and ephemera.
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- 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...
- New
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- Jacket
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- Reprint
- Any printing of a book which follows the original edition. By definition, a reprint is not a first edition.
- Bookplate
- Highly sought after by some collectors, a book plate is an inscribed or decorative device that identifies the owner, or former...
- Fine
- A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack 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....
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
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