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Display Window Lighting and the City Beautiful: Facts and New Ideas for Progressive Merchants
by Godinez, F. Laurent
- Used
- Very Good
- first
- Condition
- Very Good
- Seller
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Providence, Rhode Island, United States
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About This Item
New York: The William T. Comstock Co, 1914. First Edition. Cloth. Very Good. Large 8vo. 226 pp [16 pp ads]. Blue cloth with yellow and navy cover pastedown illustration and gilt titling to spine. Light fading to cloth at edges and spine, some chipping to spine ends. 2 leaves of publisher's adverts laid in at front, both double-sided and folded horizontally. 114 halftone photo images showing examples of retail window displays and lighting types. Light foxing to text block edges, heavy foxing to ads at rear and photo leaves throughout text. Faint discoloration to endpapers, rest clean.
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- Bookseller
- small volume
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 661
- Title
- Display Window Lighting and the City Beautiful: Facts and New Ideas for Progressive Merchants
- Author
- Godinez, F. Laurent
- Format/Binding
- Cloth
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- The William T. Comstock Co
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1914
- Keywords
- `retail, window, lighting, display, shop, store, electricity, gas
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small volume
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Providence, Rhode Island
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