How to Restore and Repair Practically Everything Hardcover - 1978

HARDBACK, SHIPPED FROM THE UK* Edn: 1st.* Imp: 2nd.* Date of Publication: Apr. 1978 (1977)* Publisher: Michael Joseph Ltd. NOT a BCA publication.* Binding and cover condition: Orange brown cloth-covered boards, gilt title to spine. No bumps or rubs, absolutely minimal shelf wear to head and tail of spine. VG++* Jacket condition: Colour photo-illustrated dust wrapper showing a selection of antiques, white titles to spine and face. NOT PRICE CLIPPED, but showing no shelf price. Considerable shelf wear to top & bottom edges and to head of spine. Staining and age to rear & internally. GD* Contents condition: PRIVATE COPY NOT EX-LIBRARY. Clean, crisp, tight and bright with no reading wear, no marks to text, very slight marks to top & fore-edge, otherwise no visible faults. VG++.* Illustrations: Several b/w photos & numerous line drawings and diagrams within text throughout.* Pages: 183 pp. text. x pp., bibliography, acknowledgements, index & blank pages at rear.* Description: What should you do with that pretty but shabby chest of drawers, or the faded gilt picture frame you bought in that auction? Can you re-polish marble-topped tables at home, fix a dented silver creamer, mend a broken glass bowl, or replace the missing pieces from an old lacquer box? What can be repaired and what is best left alone? Here is the answer to all of these questions, and hundreds more - an up-to-date easy to follow guide in 23 sections covering practically everything in your home from old furniture to modern acrylics.* A NEAR FINE text copy of the 1st/2nd with some minor faults in a GD dust jacket.*