London: Duckworth, 1921 cloth with minimal soiling or rubbing to the buckram, title in black to covers and gilt to spine, 165pp + 1 pp advert + plates. Drawings in text. How to furnish the 'modern home' of 1920s with antique or contemporary furnishings. Will be of interest to designers, set designers and collectors of turn of the (twentieth) century furniture.. First Edition. Cloth. Very Good/No Jacket. Illus. by E J Warne and A B Read. 4to - over 9? - 12" tall.

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Bookseller: Fortuna Books (NZ)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 012861
Title: Simple Furnishing and Arrangement
Author: GLOAG Helen and John
Illustrator: E J Warne and A B Read
Format/Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Used - Very Good
Jacket Condition: No Jacket
Edition: First Edition
Publisher: Duckworth
Place of Publication: London
Date Published: 1921
Keywords: interior design decoration edwardian furnishing furntiure antique art deco collecting
Bookseller catalogs: ANTIQUES & COLLECTABLES;

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Est 1999 e.v. and specialising in the occult, new age and metaphysics as well as religion and mythology, we also stock general fiction and non-fiction. Our shop which was upstairs in the Olympia Building, accessed via Shand's Emporium, was lost in the 2012 earthquakes, and we are currently mail order only.

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Rubbing: Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
Buckram: A plain weave fabric normally made from cotton or linen which is stiffened with starch or other chemicals to cover the book...
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