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Ancient Chinese Bronzes (The Arts of the East)
by Watson, William
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Used - Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0571049176
- ISBN 13
- 9780571049172
- Seller
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Chicago, Illinois, United States
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About This Item
Faber and Faber. Used - Very Good. 1977. Second Edition. hardcover. Cloth, dj. Quarto. 128 pp & 104 monochrome plates. Includes 9 color plates. Some shelf wear and foxing to dust jacket. Price clipped. Heavy foxing to top edge of text block. Some foxing to endpapers. Previous owner's inscription to ffep. Contents very sound. Very Good. (Subject: Asian Art).
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Details
- Bookseller
- Powell's Bookstores Chicago
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- C63604
- Title
- Ancient Chinese Bronzes (The Arts of the East)
- Author
- Watson, William
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0571049176
- ISBN 13
- 9780571049172
- Publisher
- Faber and Faber
- Place of Publication
- London
- This edition first published
- June 1976
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- Price Clipped
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- Jacket
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- FFEP
- A common abbreviation for Front Free End Paper. Generally, it is the first page of a book and is part of a single sheet that...
- Cloth
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- Shelf Wear
- Shelf wear (shelfwear) describes damage caused over time to a book by placing and removing a book from a shelf. This damage is...
- Quarto
- The term quarto is used to describe a page or book size. A printed sheet is made with four pages of text on each side, and the...
- 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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