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Total Design: Objects by Architects
by SPENCER, Dorothy
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine in Very Good dust jacket
- ISBN 10
- 0877016658
- ISBN 13
- 9780877016656
- Seller
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Littleton, Colorado, United States
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About This Item
San Francisco: Chronicle Books. Near Fine in Very Good dust jacket. 1991. First Edition. Hardcover. 0877016658 . First printing. Book publisher and art curator Dorothy Spencer has compiled a collection of architect-designed objects such as chairs, lamps, tables and other items which might be found in the buildings they create. With full color photos and descriptions throughout of these items, products of the Arts and Crafts Movements in England, the United States, Italy, Scandanavia and parts of Europe. --- In full black cloth-covered boards with spine titling in blind. Volume wrapped in jacket photo of a modernistic chair to front panel. --- An excellent copy: clean, tightly-bound and bright. Dust jacket with squared-off open tear at head of spine and with moderate rubbing, else intact and wrapped in removable archival mylar protector. (NOTE: Due to the weight of this item, extra shipping charges may be requested.); Quarto - 11 to 13 in. tall; 187, [5] pages .
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Details
- Bookseller
- Bluebird Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 87866
- Title
- Total Design: Objects by Architects
- Author
- SPENCER, Dorothy
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine in Very Good dust jacket
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0877016658
- ISBN 13
- 9780877016656
- Publisher
- Chronicle Books
- Place of Publication
- San Francisco
- Date Published
- 1991
- Keywords
- 0877016658
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Bluebird Books
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Littleton, Colorado
About Bluebird Books
Bluebird Books is the bookselling business of Eric Mayer, operating from my base in Littleton, Colorado. I specialize in classic fiction and literature, books on birds and natural history, railroadiana, biography, history and many other genres. Bluebird Books features publications by the Modern Library and Everyman's Library. I offer free shipping on books shipped within the US via USPS Media Mail. INTERNATIONAL ORDERS: I recommend that you use Biblio.com for your international orders because they have formed a partnership with Asendia to allow for much more affordable shipping on parcels weighing under 5 lb. (about 2.26 kg).
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