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Round Buildings, Square Buildings, And Buildings That Wiggle Like A Fish
by Isaacson, Philip M
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine in Very Good+ dust jacket
- ISBN 10
- 0394893824
- ISBN 13
- 9780394893822
- Seller
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Farmington Hills, Michigan, United States
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About This Item
New York: Borzoi/Alfred Knopf. Near Fine in Very Good+ dust jacket. 1988. First Edition. First Printing; Hardcover. 0394893824 . Color Photographs; 10 x 9 1/2 ; 121 pages; Hard cover is black with red cloth spine with gold lettering on the spine. Boards have some rubbing, scuffing and minor scraping along the bottom [from being slid in and out? ]. DJ is price clipped. Illustrated with color photographs by the author. Explores various architectural styles around the world, depicting churches, fortresses, bridges, air terminals, mills, cliff dwellings, tombs, and lighthouses of particular note. .
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- Bookseller
- Pegasusbooks.biz
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 13973
- Title
- Round Buildings, Square Buildings, And Buildings That Wiggle Like A Fish
- Author
- Isaacson, Philip M
- Illustrator
- Philip M. Isaacson
- Format/Binding
- First Printing; Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine in Very Good+ dust jacket
- Edition
- First Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0394893824
- ISBN 13
- 9780394893822
- Publisher
- Borzoi/Alfred Knopf
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1988
- Keywords
- 0394893824
Terms of Sale
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- Fine
- A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- Price Clipped
- When a book is described as price-clipped, it indicates that the portion of the dust jacket flap that has the publisher's...
- 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...
- Good+
- A term used to denote a condition a slight grade better than Good.
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- 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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