Search Results: the strange story of false hair by woodforde john

New York: Drake Pub., 1972. Hardcover. Good/good-. New York: Drake Pub., 1972. Good/good-.

Crescent Publishing, 1972. Hardcover. Very Good. Disclaimer:A copy that has been read, but remains in excellent condition. Pages are intact and are not marred by notes or highlighting, but may contain a neat previous owner name. The spine remains undamaged. At ThriftBooks, our motto is: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

NY: Drake Publishers Inc., 1972. Wigs have seemingly been worn throughout history, even on the genitals; the ancient Egyptians, for instance, wore them to shield their hairless heads from the sun. Other ancient peoples, including the Assyrians, Phoenicians, Greeks and Romans, also used wigs. Curiously, they are principally a Western form of dress — in the Far East they have rarely been used except in the traditional theatre of China and Japan. Some East Asian entertainers (Japanese Geisha, Korean Kisaeng) wore wigs (Katsura and gache respectively.) as part of their traditional costumes. After the fall of the Roman Empire, the use of wigs fell into abeyance in the West for a thousand years until revived in the 16th century as a means of compensating for hair loss or improving one's personal appearance. They also served a practical purpose: the unhygienic conditions of the time meant that hair attracted head lice, a problem that could be much reduced if natural hair were shaved and replaced… Read More

Routledge & Kegan Paul, London 1971. 23.0 x 14.0cms, 126pp, b/w illusts, very good hardback & dustwrapper The chapters are: wigs galore; ancient Egyptian & Roman wigs; modesty & the hai; the royal & clerical wigs of France; periwgs of the Restoration period; full bottoms, tyes, bags & bobs; Macaroni wigs, feather-tops & caxons; life with a wig; the early fashio wigs in America; making a head; gentlemen's invisible perukes; women's imperceptible hair coverings; modern wigs; legal wigs; where the hair comes from; an outbreak of wigs.

London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1971. xiv, 126pp, index, notes, bw ills. Or purple cloth in jacket. Slight fading to spine, light edge wear to price-clipped jacket. Some toning to endpapers, bookstore stamp with blacked out price on front free endpaper. The social history of wigs.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Very Good/Very Good. 8vo.

(RKP, 1971). Hardback. Lacks fly leaf, otherwise good in dustwrapper. 126pp.

London: Routledge and Kegan Paul. This is a Near Fine Copy of this Book in a Near Fine Dust-Jacket,Price clipped and with no previous inscriptions present.Well illustrated in b&w 8vo 126pp First Edition . Near Fine. Hardcover. First Edition. 1971.

Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1971. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. hardback, octavo, mild foxing to the closed page edges, a very good tightly bound copy with a clean and unmarked text and in a well preserved pictorial dust jacket which is now protected in a non-adhesive archival film sleeve. Illustrated, 126pp.

London: Routledge & Kegan Paul. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1971. First Edition. Hardcover. 0710070950 . 126 pp. Illus. Spine bumped. Jacket has light edgewear. The fascinating account of wigs since ancient Egyptian times. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall .

Drake Publishers, 1972. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine-.

London: Routledge And Kegan Paul, 1971. In tidy condition with a similar dust jacket. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

-Routledge & Kegan Paul (1971)-. First edition first impression 1971. Cloth. Some light corner bumping to head edges. Good in price-clipped dustjacket. Strange Story of False Hair Woodforde 0710070950

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London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1971. Jacket design by Andrew Young. Contents: 1). Wigs galore. 2). Ancient Egyptian and Roman wigs. 3). Modesty and the hair. 4). The royal and clerical wigs of France. 5). Periwig of the Restoration period. 6). Full-bottoms, tyes, bags and bobs. 7). Macaroni wigs, feather-tops and caxons. 8). Life as a wig. 9). The early fashion wigs of America. 10). Making a head. 11). Gentlemen's invisible perukes - nineteenth century. 12). Ladies' imperceptible hair coverings - nineteenth century. 13). Modern wigs. 14). Legal wigs. 15). Where the hair comes from. 16). An outbreak of wigs. With notes and index. 52 illustrations. 126 pag.. 1st edition. Hard bound with dustjacket. Good copy.. 22,5cmx14cm.

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London, Routledge And K. Paul, 1971. First Edition. Hardback. Fine cloth copy in a near fine dw. Particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. ; 126 pages; Description: xv, 126 p. ; illus. , facsims. 23 cm. Includes bibliographical references. Subjects: Wigs.

United Kingdom: Routledge & Kegan Paul Ltd, 1971. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. The social history of false hair since Egyptian times. Interesting reading. Routledge & Kegan Paul 1971. illus xv + 126pp hb dw clipped, vg

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