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How to Restore and Decorate Chairs (or Finish New Ones in Antique Styles)
by Roberta Ray Blanchard
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0517104555
- ISBN 13
- 9780517104552
- Seller
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WINFIELD, Kansas, United States
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About This Item
New York, NY: Avenel Books , 1962 Avenel Books, New York. Hardcover. c.1952/ 1962. Second Printing by Line Number (B). Book is tight, square, and unmarked. Book Condition: Very Good: light bumping to head and tail; light shelfwear to upper and lower tips and board bottom edges. DJ: Very Good; bumping to head and tail; light rubbing and superficial scratches to panels. Red leatherette grained boards with gray cloth overlay on the spine; black lettering on the spine. 128 pp 8vo. Here is all the beginner needs to know to know about restoring and decorating old chairs or finishing new ones in antique styles. Here are step-by-step directions, 16 detailed patterns, 35 photographs, and 60 separate sketches which gave all essential know-how for Early and Late Sheraton Fancy Chairs; Country -Type Windsors including Landscape-Medallion and Pennsylvania styles; Hitchcocks; Early and Late Boston Rockers; Nineteenth-Century Fiddle-Backs, Thumb-Backs, Arrow Backs, and Ladder-Backs; also detailed directions for bowl-of-fruit, moss-rose, classic-leaf, camellia, and many other designs. A clean very presentable copy.
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- Bookseller
- Walnut Valley Books/Books by White
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 013748
- Title
- How to Restore and Decorate Chairs (or Finish New Ones in Antique Styles)
- Author
- Roberta Ray Blanchard
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0517104555
- ISBN 13
- 9780517104552
- Publisher
- Avenel Books
- Place of Publication
- New York, NY
- Date Published
- 1962
- Size
- 4to - over 9¾ - 12"
- Keywords
- furniture, chairs, chair restoration, chair decoration, furniture finishes, stencil designs, gold stencils, Early and Late Sheraton Fancy Chairs; Country -Type Windsor chairs, Landscape-Medallion Chairs, Pennsylvania style chairs, Hitchcock chairs, Early
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- Art/Music/Motion Pictures/Television; Architecture/Design;
Terms of Sale
Walnut Valley Books/Books by White
30 day return guarantee, with full refund including original shipping costs for up to 30 days after delivery if an item arrives misdescribed or in the unfortunate event, damaged. All books are packed and wrapped with care to avoid shifting during shipment and edge/tip strikes during the mailing process.
About the Seller
Walnut Valley Books/Books by White
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WINFIELD, Kansas
About Walnut Valley Books/Books by White
Walnut Valley Books is a small independent home-based business with the bulk of my holdings being of an American military nature covering everything from the Revolutionary War to the current wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. I also have holdings of books on the Middle East, the southwestern United States (New Mexico especially, Kansas related titles, Oklahoma related titles, and other regionally specialized books. All of my holdings are hand-selected to be good quality books of interest to the reader, historian, or the collector. In addition to the above, you will also find a wide range of other topics such as Medical, US History, autobiographical, biographical, sports, women's studies, and many other eclectic topics.
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- Shelfwear
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