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Fifty War-Damaged Monuments of Italy
by Emilio Lavagnino
- Used
- very good
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/No Jacket
- Seller
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Gleneden Beach, Oregon, United States
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About This Item
Rome: Instituto Poligrafo Dello Stato, 1946. 1st Edition. Soft cover. Very Good/No Jacket. First Edition, 1946, 132 pages, soft cover, almost 12 inches by 8.75 inches in width, Sobering historical photographs and information showing the damage to building and monuments throughout Italy in World War II. Book is Very Good Plus or better, No previous owner name or book plate, Tight and Square, clean publisher's grey wraps with bold black title to front board, light sunning around edges, corners bumped a bit, light edge wear, spine lightly sunned. Text in English. Clean and Most Presentable Edition. Folio - over 12 - 15" tall.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Pacific Coast Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 003159
- Title
- Fifty War-Damaged Monuments of Italy
- Author
- Emilio Lavagnino
- Format/Binding
- Soft cover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Publisher
- Instituto Poligrafo Dello Stato
- Place of Publication
- Rome
- Date Published
- 1946
- Keywords
- World WarII, Italy in World War II, World War II Monuments, Italian Architecture
Terms of Sale
Pacific Coast Books
10 day return guarantee, with full refund including original shipping costs for up to 10 days after delivery if an item arrives mis-described or damaged.
About the Seller
Pacific Coast Books
Biblio member since 2015
Gleneden Beach, Oregon
About Pacific Coast Books
Pacific Coast Books specializes in quality of books of interest from our store on the Central Oregon Coast. We are proud members of the Antiquarian Booksellers Association of America and have been buying and selling books for almost 20 years. Visit our website at www.Pacifc CoastBooks.net. Please feel free to call or email with any titles you would like to add to your collection. Only a small fraction of our inventory is online. We buy book collections.
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Folio
- A folio usually indicates a large book size of 15" in height or larger when used in the context of a book description. Further,...
- 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....
- Plate
- Full page illustration or photograph. Plates are printed separately from the text of the book, and bound in at production. I.e.,...
- Sunned
- Damage done to a book cover or dust jacket caused by exposure to direct sunlight. Very strong fluorescent light can cause slight...
- 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...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- 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...
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