JAPAN: [3 VOLUME SET] Art and Culture; Land and People; Industry
by Shibata, Tatsuo (Chief editor)
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good+ with no dust jacket
- Seller
-
Williamsburg, Virginia, United States
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About This Item
Tokyo: Government of Japan. Very Good+ with no dust jacket. [1964]. Hardcover. Missing slipcase. Art and Culture: Red cloth cover is clean with only very minor wear at tail of spine. Binding sound and tight, pages clean and unmarked. Land and People: Yellow cloth cover with only very minor wear at tail of spine. There are several small dark marks on the back and a 1" circular darker area on front, possible an old sticker mark. Binding sound and tight, pages clean and unmarked. Industry: Blue cloth cover with only very minor wear. There are several small dark marks on the back and a 1" circular darker area on front, possible an old sticker mark. Binding sound and tight, pages clean and unmarked. There is very minor rubbing on the front and the black lettering on the spine is lightly worn. ; Many color and BW photographs. These are beautiful volumes in excellent condition. ; Photographs; Folio 13" - 23" tall; 216 pages .
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Details
- Bookseller
- James F. Balsley, Bookseller
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 6666
- Title
- JAPAN: [3 VOLUME SET] Art and Culture; Land and People; Industry
- Author
- Shibata, Tatsuo (Chief editor)
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good+ with no dust jacket
- Publisher
- Government of Japan
- Place of Publication
- Tokyo
- Date Published
- [1964]
- Bookseller catalogs
- Cultures & Countries; Art including photography; Arts; Art History; Architecture; Japan;
- Note
- May be a multi-volume set and require additional postage.
Terms of Sale
James F. Balsley, Bookseller
All books are warranted to be as described and genuine (unless stated otherwise in the description). Payment by check, US postal money order or cashier's check in USD will be accepted and should be made out to James F. Balsley. Checks may be held until cleared by the bank unless you are known to me. Checks must be drawn on a US bank. Credit cards are accepted through Biblio.com. Books may be returned for any reason within 10 days of receipt for a full refund of the purchase price provided the book is returned in the same condition in which it was shipped. If the return is because the description is inaccurate or other error on my part, I will also refund the postage both ways.
About the Seller
James F. Balsley, Bookseller
Biblio member since 2006
Williamsburg, Virginia
About James F. Balsley, Bookseller
My business is strictly on-line sales. I carry an inventory of about 2000 books. About half of these are modern fiction. Most of the rest are scholarly academic books concentrated in the areas of natural science, philosophy, history, and literature.
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Good+
- A term used to denote a condition a slight grade better than Good.
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- 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....
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Folio
- A folio usually indicates a large book size of 15" in height or larger when used in the context of a book description. Further,...
- Tail
- The heel of the spine.
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