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Masters of the Millennium
by Childers, Caroline and Roberta Naas
- Used
- as new
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- As New/Fine
- Seller
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Spray, Oregon, United States
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About This Item
New York: Rizzoli Intl Pubns, 2000. First Edition. Hardcover. As New/Fine. Square 4to 9" - 11" tall. Superior copy, gift-quality condition, inside and out, no discernible wear, bright and shiny dust jacket, protected. Big, tall, square quarto hardcover format, with black cloth, gilt lettering stamped to cover and spine, near pristine interior. Bright and shiny dust jacket, illustrated, little worn, protected by a plastic coat. A brilliant social history of horology and the timepieces that define the craft and manufacture of watches. 243 pp. and with hundreds of fine, full-color, even full-page reproductions of timepieces, from those made by Audemars, Piguet, Bedat, Boucheron, and Breitling to Chopard, Clerc, and Concord to Daniel JeanRichard, de Grisogono, and Girard Perregaux to Kelek, Longines, Movado, Paul Picot, Perrelet, Tag Hauer, Versace and others.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. Additional postage may be required for oversize or especially heavy volumes, and for sets.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Structure, Verses, Agency Books - Member, I.O.B.A.
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 351833
- Title
- Masters of the Millennium
- Author
- Childers, Caroline and Roberta Naas
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- New As New
- Jacket Condition
- Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Rizzoli Intl Pubns
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 2000
- Size
- Square 4to 9" - 11" t
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- Caroline Childers Roberta Naas clocks watches horology
- Bookseller catalogs
- Collectibles;
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About the Seller
Structure, Verses, Agency Books - Member, I.O.B.A.
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About Structure, Verses, Agency Books - Member, I.O.B.A.
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- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- 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...
- Fine
- A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...
- First Edition
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- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- 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...
- 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....
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