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Constructed Ground: The Millennium Garden Design Competition
by Waldheim, Charles
- Used
- Paperback
- first
- Condition
- Good -/No Jacket as Issued
- ISBN 10
- 0252070011
- ISBN 13
- 9780252070013
- Seller
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Chicago, Illinois, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
Urbana & Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 2001. 41pp. Original pictorial wraps. Pages are clean (no writing, underlining, or highlighting). Binding is tight with no cracks or breaks. This is not a remainder or ex-library. Small moisture stains to lower right corner of front cover and first few pages of book. A few pages lightly dogeared. Covers are scuffed/finger soiled with rubbing to extremities. Shelfwear (light bumping to head/heel of spine, light bumping to edges, 2 very small indentations to upper front cover). Nice reading copy.. First Edition, Collectible. Oversized Softcover. Good -/No Jacket as Issued. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.
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Details
- Bookseller
- after-words bookstore
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 047203
- Title
- Constructed Ground: The Millennium Garden Design Competition
- Author
- Waldheim, Charles
- Format/Binding
- Paperback
- Book Condition
- Used - Good -
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket as Issued
- Edition
- First Edition, Collectible
- ISBN 10
- 0252070011
- ISBN 13
- 9780252070013
- Publisher
- University of Illinois Press
- Place of Publication
- Urbana & Chicago
- Date Published
- 2001
- Size
- 4to - over 9¾" - 12&
- Keywords
- Architecture Millennium Garden Millennium Park Chicago Gardens Urban Landscape
- Bookseller catalogs
- Gardening; Urban Studies; Architecture; Landscapes;
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About the Seller
after-words bookstore
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Chicago, Illinois
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- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- 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....
- Remainder
- Book(s) which are sold at a very deep discount to alleviate publisher overstock. Often, though not always, they have a remainder...
- Pictorial Wraps
- Pictorial wraps are color illustrated covers for paperback books. Preceding mass-market paperbacks, this format brought popular...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
- Reading Copy
- Indicates a book that is perfectly serviceable for reading. It may have a defect or damage. As such, reading copy is not a...
- Shelfwear
- Minor wear resulting from a book being place on, and taken from a bookshelf, especially along the bottom edge.
- Soiled
- Generally refers to minor discoloration or staining.
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