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Africa Adorned
by Fisher, Angela
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- VG+/VG (very light shelfwear to dust jacket. Pages are very crisp and clean.)
- ISBN 10
- 0810918234
- ISBN 13
- 9780810918238
- Seller
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Columbia, Pennsylvania, United States
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About This Item
NY: Harry N. Abrams, 1991. Hardcover. VG+/VG (very light shelfwear to dust jacket. Pages are very crisp and clean.). Brown cloth with gilt lettering on spine. Color pictorial dust jacket; black spine with white lettering. 304 pp. 457 plates, 414 in color. Reprinted from 1984 original. "First fascinated by its pure beauty, Angela Fisher has examined African adornment for over seven years, initially as a traveler and then increasingly as a close student of jewelry and body decoration. Traveling from the Sahara to Cape Horn, she has lived among peoples of diverse culture, studying and photographing not only what they wear but what meaning the objects and decorative forms have in their daily lives." -- dj flap Includes bibliographical references (pages 300-301) and index.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Mullen Books, Inc. ABAA / ILAB
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 133108
- Title
- Africa Adorned
- Author
- Fisher, Angela
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - VG+/VG (very light shelfwear to dust jacket. Pages are very crisp and clean.)
- Quantity Available
- 1
- ISBN 10
- 0810918234
- ISBN 13
- 9780810918238
- Publisher
- Harry N. Abrams
- Place of Publication
- NY
- Date Published
- 1991
- Keywords
- African Decorative Arts ; African Jewelry ; ;
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About the Seller
Mullen Books, Inc. ABAA / ILAB
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Columbia, Pennsylvania
About Mullen Books, Inc. ABAA / ILAB
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Glossary
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- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- 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....
- VG+/VG
- A book in slightly better than Very Good Condition with a Very Good Condition dust jacket. Very Good Condition indicates a used...
- Crisp
- A term often used to indicate a book's new-like condition. Indicates that the hinges are not loosened. A book described as crisp...
- Shelfwear
- Minor wear resulting from a book being place on, and taken from a bookshelf, especially along the bottom edge.
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
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