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A Pictorial History Of Costume: A Survey OF Costume Of All Periods And Peoples From Antiquity To Modern Times Including National Costume In Europe And Non-European Countries
by Bruhn, Wolfgang & Max Tilke
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good Plus/Very Good
- Seller
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Granville, New York, United States
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About This Item
NY: Praeger, 1965. Hard cover in original cloth and dust jacket. Published NY: Praeger, 1965, second printing. Folio, 10" x 13 1/2", 200pp., illustrated with 120 plates in four colors and 80 plates in gravure, representing more than 4,000 individual figures and details of costume. Brown cloth with gilt titles and cover design. Mild foxing on top corner and top edge of page block, Light foxing on pastedown/flyleaf, else near fine - clean, unmarked, bright, edges unworn in very good, price-clipped dust jacket with a short, closed tear at heel, foxing to upper corner/edge and verso. . Hard. Very Good Plus/Very Good. Folio.
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- Bookseller
- The Wild Muse
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 010379
- Title
- A Pictorial History Of Costume: A Survey OF Costume Of All Periods And Peoples From Antiquity To Modern Times Including National Costume In Europe And Non-European Countries
- Author
- Bruhn, Wolfgang & Max Tilke
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good Plus
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Publisher
- Praeger
- Place of Publication
- NY
- Date Published
- 1965
- Size
- Folio
- Bookseller catalogs
- Architecture & Design;
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Granville, New York
About The Wild Muse
Literary and modern first editions. Established 1985. Mail order only.
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- 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,...
- Gilt
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- Verso
- The page bound on the left side of a book, opposite to the recto page.
- Fine
- A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...
- Heel
- The lower most portion of the spine when the book is standing vertically.
- Gravure
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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...
- 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...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
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