The Agony of Fashion
by Eline Canter Cremers-van der Does
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0713710586
- ISBN 13
- 9780713710588
- Seller
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Te Awamutu, Waikato, New Zealand
Item Price
A$27.60A$22.08
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About This Item
Poole, Dorset: Blandford Press , 1980. English translation by Leo Van Witsen. Crimson cloth, gilt lettering to spine. 128 pp. Colour Plates, B/w Line Drawings and photographs. Several fox spots to first and last two pages. No inscriptions. Contents clean and firmly bound. Priceclipped DJ has mild sunning to spine. Traces the history of the fashionable body shape from ancient Egypt to the present day [1980 publication]. It is both a fashion history and an amusing revelation of how our ideal of the perfect figure has changed through the ages and the lengths to which people have gone to achieve this ideal.. First UK Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
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- Bookseller
- All Booked (NZ)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 004721
- Title
- The Agony of Fashion
- Author
- Eline Canter Cremers-van der Does
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Edition
- First UK Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0713710586
- ISBN 13
- 9780713710588
- Publisher
- Blandford Press
- Place of Publication
- Poole, Dorset
- Date Published
- 1980
- Keywords
- Fashion History
- Bookseller catalogs
- History - General;
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