The Mode in Hats and Headdress, Including Hair Styles, Cosmetics and Jewelry
by Wilcox, R. Turner
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Near Fine/Very Good
- Seller
-
Whitby, Ontario, Canada
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About This Item
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1959. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. 8vo. Revised edition. Full red cloth boards. xiv, 348 pp. B&W illustration by the author. Light bumping to spine ends. Spine slightly shaken. Small spot of wear to tail edge of rear board. Dust jacket is price clipped, edge worn, rubbed to covers. A comprehensive survey of the changing styles in headgear from Egyptian and classical times to the present, not only hats and caps worn by men, women and children, but also all styles of hairdressing and beards, earrings and necklaces, and even the cosmetics used in each period.
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- Bookseller
- Minotavros Books (CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 013698
- Title
- The Mode in Hats and Headdress, Including Hair Styles, Cosmetics and Jewelry
- Author
- Wilcox, R. Turner
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Charles Scribner's Sons
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1959
- Keywords
- hats, headdress, headgear, R. Turner Wilcox, hair styles, cosmetics, jewelry, fashion, beards, hairdressing
- Bookseller catalogs
- Fashion;
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Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Shaken
- A hardcover in which the text block is loose, but still attached to the binding.
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- 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...
- 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....
- Tail
- The heel of the spine.