French Faience
by Lane, Arthur
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Used - Good
- Seller
-
Chicago, Illinois, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
London Faber and Faber. Used - Good. 1948. hardcover. Cloth, dj. Quarto. xi & 49 pp & 96 monochrome plates. Includes 4 color plates. Significant shelf wear, scuffing, and chipping & tearing to dust jacket. Price clipped. Foxing and toning to edges of text block and pages, otherwise contents very sound. Good. (Subject: Antiques & Collectibles).
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Details
- Bookseller
- Powell's Bookstores Chicago
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- C63622
- Title
- French Faience
- Author
- Lane, Arthur
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- London Faber and Faber
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Powell's Bookstores Chicago
Biblio member since 2005
Chicago, Illinois
About Powell's Bookstores Chicago
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Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- 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...
- Text Block
- Most simply the inside pages of a book. More precisely, the block of paper formed by the cut and stacked pages of a book....
- Quarto
- The term quarto is used to describe a page or book size. A printed sheet is made with four pages of text on each side, and the...
- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
- Shelf Wear
- Shelf wear (shelfwear) describes damage caused over time to a book by placing and removing a book from a shelf. This damage is...
- Price Clipped
- When a book is described as price-clipped, it indicates that the portion of the dust jacket flap that has the publisher's...
- 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...
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