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American Shelter: an Illustrated Encyclopedia of the American Home
by Walker, Lester
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good in Very Good dust jacket
- ISBN 10
- 0879511311
- ISBN 13
- 9780879511319
- Seller
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Lawrence, Kansas, United States
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About This Item
Overlook Press. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1981. Hardcover. 0879511311 . Black cloth hardback is tightly bound with no marks. Contains over a thousand black and white illustrations, Glossary, Bibliography and Index of Architects. Blue end papers with ghost of bookseller sticker to ffep. Gilt to spine with little wear. Clipped DJ with price still showing and now in Brodart, has very light foxing to inside with no wear. Digital photos available. ; 4to 11" - 13" tall; 320 pages .
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Details
- Bookseller
- The Book Lady (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 868
- Title
- American Shelter: an Illustrated Encyclopedia of the American Home
- Author
- Walker, Lester
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good in Very Good dust jacket
- ISBN 10
- 0879511311
- ISBN 13
- 9780879511319
- Publisher
- Overlook Press
- Place of Publication
- Woodstock, Ny
- Date Published
- 1981
- Keywords
- 0879511311, American Architectural History
- Bookseller catalogs
- Architecture;
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The Book Lady
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Lawrence, Kansas
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Glossary
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- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- 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...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- 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....
- Brodart
- Generally used to refer to a clear plastic cover that is sometimes added to the dustjacket or outside covering of a book. The...
- FFEP
- A common abbreviation for Front Free End Paper. Generally, it is the first page of a book and is part of a single sheet that...