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AFRICAN TEXTILES: COLOUR AND CREATIVITY ACROSS A CONTINENT
by GILLOW JOHN
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good +/Very Good +
- ISBN 10
- 0500511446
- ISBN 13
- 9780500511442
- Seller
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Chamblee, Georgia, United States
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About This Item
US: Thames & Hudson, 2006. Hardcover. Very Good +/Very Good +. Navy paper-covered boards with debossed particulars to spine and debossed dolphin design to front board. Pages and photographs are clean, bright and unmarked. Text block is clean and unmarked. Boards are clean and bright with light bumping to corners and tail of spine. Binding is tight, spine is slightly cocked. Dust jacket is clean, bright and unmarked with light creasing to edges, corners and ends of spine.
Synopsis
Thomas Jefferson has inspired countless books that explore his brilliant career, his political philosophy, and his extraordinary accomplishments as a gifted leader. Endlessly inquisitive, he was both a tireless writer and one of the most cosmopolitan men of his age. Yet this collection of Jefferson's reflections on his wide-ranging travels reveals a new side of the man. Eloquent and powerful, Thomas Jefferson's letters and travel diaries from his years abroad as the U.S. minister to France spill onto the pages of this volume in wonderful detail, covering the full range of his interests and passions. Editor Anthony Brandt has sifted through the myriad of writings from this rich period of Jefferson's career to present not only the politician and diplomat but Thomas Jefferson the lover, the father, the farmer, the architect, the man about town, the scientist, the visionary. Jefferson emerges at the end a fully dimensional man, with all his virtues, his flaws, and his extraordinary brilliance fleshed out, standing vividly before us. Thomas Jefferson formulated many of America's highest ideals. Here we see the man himself, and glimpse the world through his eyes.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Atlanta Vintage Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 64917
- Title
- AFRICAN TEXTILES: COLOUR AND CREATIVITY ACROSS A CONTINENT
- Author
- GILLOW JOHN
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good +
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good +
- Quantity Available
- 1
- ISBN 10
- 0500511446
- ISBN 13
- 9780500511442
- Publisher
- Thames & Hudson
- Place of Publication
- US
- Date Published
- 2006
- Keywords
- Art
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Atlanta Vintage Books
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Chamblee, Georgia
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- 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...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- 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.
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Cocked
- Refers to a state where the spine of a book is lightly "twisted" in such a way that the front and rear boards of a book do not...
- 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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