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The American Shakers and Their Furniture : With Measured Drawings of Museum Classics
by Shea, John G
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good - Fine/Very Good +
- ISBN 10
- 0442281730
- ISBN 13
- 9780442281731
- Seller
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Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
New York: Van Nostrand Reinhold Company, 1981 Book. Very Good - Fine. Hardcover. Later Printing. 4to. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good +. prelims + 208 (1) pp, preface, acknowledgments, I. Shaker Creed, Customs, Colonization, and Industries, II. Shaker Furniture Design, III. Shaker Furinture Construction, IV. Shaker Furniture Finishing, V. Shaker Smallcraft...With Museum-Measured Drawings, VI. Shaker Utility Design...With Museum-Measured Drawings, VII. Shaker Furniture Classics...With Museum-Measured Drawings; index with b&w illustrations and drawings throughout. Eight coth impression 1981. Small chips top edge spine dj with slight edgewear, and lightly rubbed rear panel of same. Lightly foxed text block edges with only the slightest edgewear. Clean, tight and strong binding with no underlining, highlighting or marginalia. Brown leatherette..
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Details
- Bookseller
- West Side Book Shop, ABAA
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 003740
- Title
- The American Shakers and Their Furniture : With Measured Drawings of Museum Classics
- Author
- Shea, John G
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good +
- Edition
- Later Printing
- ISBN 10
- 0442281730
- ISBN 13
- 9780442281731
- Publisher
- Van Nostrand Reinhold Company
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1981
- Keywords
- CRAFTS CARPENTRY SHAKER FUTNITURE HISTORY DECORATION AND ORNAMENT
- Size
- 4to
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
West Side Book Shop, ABAA
Biblio member since 2006
Ann Arbor, Michigan
About West Side Book Shop, ABAA
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Glossary
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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...
- 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....
- 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...
- 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....
- 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...
- Marginalia
- Marginalia, in brief, are notes written in the margins, or beside the text of a book by a previous owner. This is very...
- Foxed
- Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...
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