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Handmade Houses: A Guide to the Woodbutcher's Art
by Boericke, Art
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0912020008
- ISBN 13
- 9780912020006
- Seller
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Providence, Rhode Island, United States
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About This Item
San Francisco, CA: The Scrimshaw Press, 1973. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Shapiro, Barry. Square royal octavo. Unpaginated [92 pp]. Blue cloth with green cloth backing and black titling to spine. White dust jacket with black text and color photos to front and rear panels. DJ scuffed and lightly soiled, with small grey mark to front joint and larger (appx 2 inch) dampstain to rear panel at bottom fore corner, likely from glue, affecting verso and bottom corner of rear board. Endpapers lightly sunned at edges. Bookplate of previous owners Caroline and John Goldsmith to ffep. Laid in at front are two 5x7 black and white promotional photos, publisher's review slip and press release, and typed letter addressed to John Goldsmith, editor of House & Home Magazine, on Scrimshaw Press letterhead.
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- Bookseller
- small volume
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 447
- Title
- Handmade Houses: A Guide to the Woodbutcher's Art
- Author
- Boericke, Art
- Illustrator
- Shapiro, Barry
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0912020008
- ISBN 13
- 9780912020006
- Publisher
- The Scrimshaw Press
- Place of Publication
- San Francisco, CA
- Date Published
- 1973
- Keywords
- house, carpentry, house & home, review copy, association copy, promo, arc, galley
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