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The Personality of a House: The Blue Book of Home Design and Decoration
by Emily Post
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good +/Very Good
- Seller
-
Waccabuc, New York, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
New York: Funk & Wagnalls, 1930. Boards. Very Good +/Very Good. A handsome, well-preserved copy of the April 1930 1st edition. Solid and VG+ (light spotting to the rear panel and the rear pastedown) in a crisp, price-clipped, VG dustjacket, with forgiveable creasing and light chipping along the panel edges. Thick octavo, over 170 figures AND 63 captioned, full-page black-and-white plates complementing Emily Post's text.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Appledore Books, ABAA
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 20811
- Title
- The Personality of a House: The Blue Book of Home Design and Decoration
- Author
- Emily Post
- Format/Binding
- Boards
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good +
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Funk & Wagnalls
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1930
- Keywords
- rare interior design, rare Americana, are Emily Post
Terms of Sale
Appledore Books, ABAA
All books are offered subject to prior sale. Materials are returnable within 1 week of receipt provided prior notice is given.
About the Seller
Appledore Books, ABAA
Biblio member since 2005
Waccabuc, New York
About Appledore Books, ABAA
Buy and sell - rare, unusual and antiquarian - art, photography, literature, scholarly, sports, childrens, bindings.
Glossary
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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...
- Chipping
- A defect in which small pieces are missing from the edges; fraying or small pieces of paper missing the edge of a paperback, or...
- Crisp
- A term often used to indicate a book's new-like condition. Indicates that the hinges are not loosened. A book described as crisp...
- VG
- Very Good condition can describe a used book that does show some small signs of wear - but no tears - on either binding or...
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...