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5000 YEARS OF CHINESE COSTUMES
by Chunming, Gao
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine/Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0835118223
- ISBN 13
- 9780835118224
- Seller
-
Chamblee, Georgia, United States
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About This Item
US: China Books & Periodicals, 1987. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. First Edition, housed in publisher's original slipcase. A pictorial record of traditional Chinese costumes intended to serve as an album, a practical reference book and a valuable academic work. Black cloth over boards with gilt particulars to spine. Pages are clean and unmarked. Boards are clean and bright. Text block is clean. Binding is tight and square. Dust jacket is clean and bright, with very light shelfwear to extremeties and minor "bubbling" to rear. Publisher's paper-covered cardboard slipcase is in Good condition: the "laminate" over the paper-covered boards shows peeling and bubbling, primarily at edges. Additionally, slipcase shows some light chipping to edges.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Atlanta Vintage Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 55303
- Title
- 5000 YEARS OF CHINESE COSTUMES
- Author
- Chunming, Gao
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0835118223
- ISBN 13
- 9780835118224
- Publisher
- China Books & Periodicals
- Place of Publication
- US
- Date Published
- 1987
- Keywords
- Art
Terms of Sale
Atlanta Vintage Books
30 day return guarantee, with full refund including shipping costs for up to 30 days after delivery if an item arrives misdescribed or damaged.
About the Seller
Atlanta Vintage Books
Biblio member since 2007
Chamblee, Georgia
About Atlanta Vintage Books
Welcome to Atlanta Vintage Books, serving book lovers locally and worldwide for over 30 years. Our 5,000 square foot book store houses over 70,000 vintage, rare and out of print books. You'll be greeted with a smile when you enter but left alone as you browse. Our staff is friendly, helpful and knowledgeable. Special orders are happily accommodated, as hard-to-find and out-of-print editions are a specialty. Our store is light and airy with plate glass windows letting in plenty of natural light and wonderfully decorated with antique display cases, old barrister bookcases, and wood book shelves. The wide aisles and scattered seating make browsing a joy. You'll wonder where the time went.
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Chipping
- A defect in which small pieces are missing from the edges; fraying or small pieces of paper missing the edge of a paperback, or...
- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- 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....
- Shelfwear
- Minor wear resulting from a book being place on, and taken from a bookshelf, especially along the bottom edge.
- 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...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- 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....
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