The Doll
by Carl Fox
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Fine in Very Good dust jacket
- Seller
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Harwinton, Connecticut, United States
Item Price
A$69.72A$52.29
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
New York: Harry N. Abrams. Fine in Very Good dust jacket. Hardcover. Beautiful red velvet covered hardcover, large gilt lettering on cover and spine. 343 pages in fine condition with near fine dustjacket, light wear on jacket edges. Large coffeetable book. 191 illustrations, including 70 in full-color. Superb photography by H. Landshoff. Almost 200 full-page plates show dolls from many cultures and eras. There are fashion models made for queens, sophisticated French ladies made by the greatest doll-makers of all, handmade dolls, puppets, kewpies, voodoo dolls, fetish figures, Oriental dolls, and Indian Kachina dolls. Text covers the history and meaning of dolls around the world. The most indepth book published on dolls. Oversize extra postage needed.; 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall .
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Details
- Bookseller
- Lavender Path Antiques and Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 001930
- Title
- The Doll
- Author
- Carl Fox
- Illustrator
- H. Landshoff
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine in Very Good dust jacket
- Publisher
- Harry N. Abrams
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Keywords
- REFERENCE, COLLECTIBLES, ANTIQUES, GUIDE
- Bookseller catalogs
- Antiques; Reference;
Terms of Sale
Lavender Path Antiques and Books
All major credit cards accepted. Paypal accepted. Returns must be made within 30 days of purchase.
About the Seller
Lavender Path Antiques and Books
Biblio member since 2005
Harwinton, Connecticut
About Lavender Path Antiques and Books
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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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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....
- Fine
- A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...