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WOODCUTS OF FIFTEEN AMERICAN CITIES FROM THE BUSINESS WEEK COLLECTION
by Du Vall Lloyd
- Used
- very good
- Condition
- Very Good/Good +
- Seller
-
Chamblee, Georgia, United States
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About This Item
US: McGraw - Hill Publishing, 1963. Limited Edition. Hardback. Very Good/Good +. Limited Edition, 1963. Limited to 5,000 copies. Quarter black cloth over textured brick red paper-covered boards with gilt title to spine and to front board along spine edge. Lower corner folded at page 41; otherwise, pages and plates are clean, bright and umarked. Text block is clean and unmarked. Light red marking to rear pastedown; otherwise, decorative endpages are clean and bright. Boards are clean and bright with light bumping and rubbing to corners. Spine has sunning and soiling. Binding is tight and square. Slipcase has signs of shelf wear with rubbing, scuffing, bumping and chipping to extremities; top edge torn at sides.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Atlanta Vintage Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 64967
- Title
- WOODCUTS OF FIFTEEN AMERICAN CITIES FROM THE BUSINESS WEEK COLLECTION
- Author
- Du Vall Lloyd
- Format/Binding
- Hardback
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Good +
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Limited Edition
- Publisher
- McGraw - Hill Publishing
- Place of Publication
- US
- Date Published
- 1963
- Keywords
- Art
Terms of Sale
Atlanta Vintage Books
30 day return guarantee, with full refund including shipping costs for up to 30 days after delivery if an item arrives misdescribed or damaged.
About the Seller
Atlanta Vintage Books
Biblio member since 2007
Chamblee, Georgia
About Atlanta Vintage Books
Welcome to Atlanta Vintage Books, serving book lovers locally and worldwide for over 30 years. Our 5,000 square foot book store houses over 70,000 vintage, rare and out of print books. You'll be greeted with a smile when you enter but left alone as you browse. Our staff is friendly, helpful and knowledgeable. Special orders are happily accommodated, as hard-to-find and out-of-print editions are a specialty. Our store is light and airy with plate glass windows letting in plenty of natural light and wonderfully decorated with antique display cases, old barrister bookcases, and wood book shelves. The wide aisles and scattered seating make browsing a joy. You'll wonder where the time went.
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Shelf Wear
- Shelf wear (shelfwear) describes damage caused over time to a book by placing and removing a book from a shelf. This damage is...
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- 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....
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Chipping
- A defect in which small pieces are missing from the edges; fraying or small pieces of paper missing the edge of a paperback, or...
- 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...
- Text Block
- Most simply the inside pages of a book. More precisely, the block of paper formed by the cut and stacked pages of a book....
- 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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