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WHERE ART IS JOY: HAITIAN ART (THE FIRST FORTY YEARS)
by Selden Rodman
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good +
- ISBN 10
- 0938291017
- ISBN 13
- 9780938291015
- Seller
-
Chamblee, Georgia, United States
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About This Item
Japan: Ruggles De Latour, 1988. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good +. First Edition. Bright cherry-red cloth over boards with gilt-debossed particulars to spine. Pages have very light tanning to margins, but are otherwise clean and unmarked. Text block is foxed. Boards are clean and bright with light rubbing to gilt at spine; corners bumped. Binding is tight, spine is slightly cocked. Dust jacket is clean and bright with light wear to covers and extremities.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Atlanta Vintage Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 64670
- Title
- WHERE ART IS JOY: HAITIAN ART (THE FIRST FORTY YEARS)
- Author
- Selden Rodman
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good +
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0938291017
- ISBN 13
- 9780938291015
- Publisher
- Ruggles De Latour
- Place of Publication
- Japan
- Date Published
- 1988
- Keywords
- Art
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Atlanta Vintage Books
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Chamblee, Georgia
About Atlanta Vintage Books
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Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Foxed
- Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...
- 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...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- 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....
- 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...
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- 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....
- Cocked
- Refers to a state where the spine of a book is lightly "twisted" in such a way that the front and rear boards of a book do not...
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