American Cabinetmakers: Marked American Furniture: 1640-1940
by Ketchum Jr., William C
- Used
- Fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fine/Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0517595621
- ISBN 13
- 9780517595626
- Seller
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Staten Island, New York, United States
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About This Item
New York: Crown, 1995. Hardcover, large octavo in publisher's non price-clipped dust-jacket. 404 pages. Index. Profusely illustrated with black and white photographs. Stated first edition, first printing with full number line. An important contribution to the study of American furniture, this single volume lists, alphabetically, more than 1,600 artisans, each accompanied by a brief biographical caption, if available. It is the first book to "catalog and illustrate all known American wood furniture pieces that bear the signatures, labels, brands, impressions, or ink-stamp marks of their makers." No previous ownership marks. No remainder mark. A clean, square, fresh and unmarked copy, as new. Fine in a fine dust-jacket. . First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Great Expectations Rare Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 014011
- Title
- American Cabinetmakers: Marked American Furniture: 1640-1940
- Author
- Ketchum Jr., William C
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Fine
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0517595621
- ISBN 13
- 9780517595626
- Publisher
- Crown
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1995
- Keywords
- Furniture, American Furniture, Cabinetmakers
- Bookseller catalogs
- Reference;
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
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Great Expectations Rare Books
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Staten Island, New York
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- Fine
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