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Principles Of Correct Dress (in original dust jacket)
by Winterburn, Florence Hull (including chapters by Jean Worth and Paul Poiret)
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good
- Seller
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Stanley, New York, United States
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About This Item
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1914. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. Hardcover book in in original dust jacket. Clean blue cloth boards with dark blue lettering, image of woman looking in a hand mirror on cover, dark lettering and small hand mirror on spine; library number on spine. No bumping or fraying. Binding is tight and square, hinges are sound - no cracking. Ink-stamp of "West Union School Homemaking" on front and rear pastedown. Publisher's code C-W on copyright page. All text pages are clean and unmarked, clean text block page edges. 245 pages. Dust jacket is clean, has 1" piece missing at base of spine, one 3" closed angle tear; other shorter edge tears, "1030" on spine; enclosed in new archival quality removable mylar cover. Principles embodied in this book concern not the fashion of the moment, but the permanent rules of individual dress. It contains chapters by the two greatest fashion authorities in the world at the time..
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- Bookseller
- Old Scrolls Book Shop - Biblio
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 035080
- Title
- Principles Of Correct Dress (in original dust jacket)
- Author
- Winterburn, Florence Hull (including chapters by Jean Worth and Paul Poiret)
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Publisher
- Harper & Brothers
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1914
- Keywords
- CLOTHING, DRESS, FASHION PRINCIPLES, HISTORY, FLORENCE HULL WINTERBURN, JEAN WORTH, PAUL POIRET, OLD DUST JACKETS
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Glossary
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- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- 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...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Copyright page
- The page in a book that describes the lineage of that book, typically including the book's author, publisher, date of...
- Text Block
- Most simply the inside pages of a book. More precisely, the block of paper formed by the cut and stacked pages of a book....
- 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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