The Japanese Art of Stone Appreciation
by Covello, Vincent T
- Used
- Good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good/Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0804814856
- ISBN 13
- 9780804814850
- Seller
-
Salem, Oregon, United States
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About This Item
Tuttle Publishing, 1984. First Edition. Hardcover. Good/Very Good. 9x6x0. Stated first printing. 166 pages. Pale mint-green cloth with brown spine titles; very faintly foxed, with light toning to top edges. Spine square. Binding sound. Dust jacket lightly edgeworn, sunned to spine, very good in Mylar. Textblock edges foxed, with spotting to first and last few pages. Interior else clean, text unmarked.
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- Bookseller
- The Book Bin
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- BBS-2015150
- Title
- The Japanese Art of Stone Appreciation
- Author
- Covello, Vincent T
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0804814856
- ISBN 13
- 9780804814850
- Publisher
- Tuttle Publishing
- Place of Publication
- Rutland / Tokyo
- Date Published
- 1984
- Size
- 9x6x0
- X weight
- 19 oz
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- First Edition
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- Jacket
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- 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...
- Foxed
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- Sunned
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- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- 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....
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