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l'Art de Reconnaître: Les Meubles Régionaux
by Boulanger, Gisèle
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Good
- Seller
-
Beloit, Wisconsin, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
[Paris]: Hachette, 1966. Typical furniture & knick-knacks of various areas of France, including Alsace, Auvergne, Berri, Bourgogne, Bretagne, Champagne, Flandre-Picardie, Franche-Comté, Gascogne, Guyenne, Ile de France, Lorraine, Lyonnais, Normandie, Provence, Savoie, Val de Loire, & Vendée. Text in French. Copiously illustrated with b/w photos. Hardcover, full red cloth blocked in black, gilt titling. Light wear to book & jacket, minor spine lean; jacket spine faded. Text clean; 512 pages, color & b/w plates. Text in French.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Good. Large Octavo.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Bookworks MWABA, IOBA
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- p1188
- Title
- l'Art de Reconnaître: Les Meubles Régionaux
- Author
- Boulanger, Gisèle
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Good
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Hachette
- Place of Publication
- [Paris]
- Date Published
- 1966
- Keywords
- Furniture, Antiques, Interior Decoration, France
- Bookseller catalogs
- Architecture & Interior Decoration;
- Size
- Large Octavo
Terms of Sale
Bookworks MWABA, IOBA
All books are subject to prior sale, though we make every effort to keep our inventory current. Books are returnable within ten days with prior notification. We will request extra shipping for large books and sets going to addresses outside the United States.
About the Seller
Bookworks MWABA, IOBA
Biblio member since 2006
Beloit, Wisconsin
About Bookworks MWABA, IOBA
Most of our stock is on-line only, though we have many books in three booths at Angela's Attic Antique Mall, 1020 Gardner Street in South Beloit, Illinois; a booth across the street at the Best of Beloit; and a large booth at the Lake Geneva Antique Mall, 829 Williams Street, Lake Geneva, WI. You may request to see any of our on-line inventory at any location with a few days' notice.
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- Jacket
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- 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...
- 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...
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- 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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