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The Costume Collector's Companion, 1890-1990
by Hawthorne, Rosemary
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- F/VG++/VG++
- ISBN 10
- 1854105523
- ISBN 13
- 9781854105523
- Seller
-
Salisbury, Wiltshire, United Kingdom
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About This Item
HARDBACK, SHIPPED FROM THE UK* Edn: 1st.* Imp: 1st.* Date of Publication: 1998* Publisher: Aurum Press Ltd.* Binding and cover condition: Maroon cloth, gilt title to spine. No bumps or rubs, slight fault to rear board. No other visible faults. VG++* Jacket condition: Colour photo-illustrated dust wrapper, black and blue titles to spine and face. NOT PRICE CLIPPED, showing a shelf price of £14.95. Absolutely minimal shelf wear to top & bottom edges and to head & tail of spine. VG++* Contents condition: PRIVATE COPY NOT EX-LIBRARY. Clean, crisp, tight and bright with no reading wear, no marks to text, very slightly dusty top-edge, otherwise no visible faults. FINE.* Illustrations: Two x 12pp. blocks of colour photos, & numerous b/w line drawings and diagrams within text throughout.* Pages: 185 pp. text. viii pp., reading lists, appendices & acknowledgements at rear.* Description: Covering European costume from 1890 onwards, this book is arranged by decade, and provides detailed descriptions and illustrations of costumes, shoes, handbags, hats and items of underwear that are characteristic of the period.* A NEAR FINE text copy of the 1st/1st with some minor binding faults in a VG++ dust jacket.*
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Details
- Bookseller
- Cocksparrow Books
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 782
- Title
- The Costume Collector's Companion, 1890-1990
- Author
- Hawthorne, Rosemary
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - F/VG++/VG++
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st. Edn, 1st. Imp.
- ISBN 10
- 1854105523
- ISBN 13
- 9781854105523
- Publisher
- Aurum Press
- Place of Publication
- London UK 191
- Date Published
- 1998-03-26
- Size
- 13.3 x 2.5 x 22.2 cm
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- Tail
- The heel of the spine.
- Gilt
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- Price Clipped
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- Bumps
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- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Jacket
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- Crisp
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- 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....
- Shelf Wear
- Shelf wear (shelfwear) describes damage caused over time to a book by placing and removing a book from a shelf. This damage is...
- Cloth
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- Fine
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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...
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