Kovels' American Silver Marks
by Kovel, R
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- VG+/F/VG++
- ISBN 10
- 0517568829
- ISBN 13
- 9780517568828
- Seller
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Salisbury, Wiltshire, United Kingdom
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About This Item
HARDBACK, ?UNCOMMON,? SHIPPED FROM THE UK* Edn: 1st. U.S. * Imp: 1st. Full number line.* Date of Publication: 1989* Publisher: Crown Publishers Inc.* Binding and cover condition: Quarter bound, maroon cloth, silver title to black cloth spine. No bumps or rubs, absolutely minimal shelf wear to upper & lower edges. FINE* Jacket condition: Colour photo-illustrated dust wrapper, white titles to spine & face. NOT PRICE CLIPPED, showing a shelf price of $40.00. Absolutely minimal shelf wear to top & bottom edges and to head & tail of spine. Interior slightly darkened. VG++* Contents condition: PRIVATE COPY NOT EX-LIBRARY. Cream end papers. Top & fore-edge slightly spotted. Prelims slightly marked otherwise clean, crisp, tight and bright with no reading wear, no marks to text. VG+.* Illustrations: Numerous b/w line drawn diagrams within text throughout.* Pages: 417 pp. text. vi pp., bibliography, index & blank pages at rear.* Description: Kovels' American Silver Marks is a simple-to-use guide to identifying marks and monograms that appear on silver. Collectors and dealers can quickly determine the maker of a piece of silver. The listings include working dates, location, mark (if known), and bibliographic references to more than 160 books and articles. Makers working from 1650 to the present are included. More than 10,000 silversmiths are listed in alphabetical order, with a cross-indexing system for monograms and pictorial marks.* A NEAR FINE text copy of the 1st/1st fnl. with some minor faults reducing it to VG+.*
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- Bookseller
- Cocksparrow Books (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1873
- Title
- Kovels' American Silver Marks
- Author
- Kovel, R
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - VG+/F/VG++
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition, 1st. Imp. FNL.
- ISBN 10
- 0517568829
- ISBN 13
- 9780517568828
- Publisher
- Crown Publications
- Place of Publication
- N.Y. USA 424
- Date Published
- 1989-10-01
- Size
- 30.5 x 20.3 x 5.1 cm
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