Decorative Dolls' Houses: Original Interiors for Twenty Five Dolls' Houses
by Hamilton, Caroline
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- F/VG++/VG++
- ISBN 10
- 0852238827
- ISBN 13
- 9780852238820
- Seller
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Salisbury, Wiltshire, United Kingdom
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About This Item
HARDBACK SHIPPED FROM THE UK* Edition: 1st. Thus.* Impression: 1st.* Date of Publication: 1990* Publisher: Ebury Press.* Binding and cover condition: Royal blue cloth, Gilt title to spine. No bumps, minor rubs to head of spine, no other visible faults. VG+* Jacket condition: Colour photo-illustrated dust wrapper. Price clipped. Minimal shelf wear to top & bottom edge and to head & tail of spine. VG+* Contents condition: PRIVATE COPY NOT EX-LIBRARY. Coloured end papers. Clean, crisp, tight and bright with no reading wear, no marks to text, seems little used, FINE.* Illustrations: Colour photos throughout.* Pages: 138 pp. text. vi pp. Appendices, Bibliography, Acknowledgements & index at rear.* Description: A practical guide to decorating dolls houses, featuring over 25 original miniature houses and shops, including a Victorian house and an English pub. The book is divided into sections on houses, shops and curiosities, and has full details on practicalities such as lighting and furnishings.* A NEAR FINE copy with only minor faults reducing it to VG+*
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- Bookseller
- Cocksparrow Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 883
- Title
- Decorative Dolls' Houses: Original Interiors for Twenty Five Dolls' Houses
- Author
- Hamilton, Caroline
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - F/VG++/VG++
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0852238827
- ISBN 13
- 9780852238820
- Publisher
- Ebury Press
- Place of Publication
- London Uk 144
- Date Published
- 1990-05-10
- Size
- 25.4 x 22.6 x 2.3 cm
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