THE BOOK OF ZURICH
by Arnet, Edwin & Hans Kasser
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good
- Seller
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New York, New York, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
Zurich: Artemis Publishing & Zurich Tourist Office, 1954. First English edition. Square octavo. 71 pp text plus 2 color & 68 b/w illustrations, several inserts. Blue flexible cloth with silver-stamped lettering with dustjacket. VG/VG, inscription on ffep, dated 1956, else a clean, unmarked copy; jacket spine & flap folds lightly toned, a few tiny edge chips. A most attractive history of Zurich with high-quality b/w photos & drawings. Wonderful 50's jacket design by Kurt Wirth.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Carnegie Hill Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 012553
- Title
- THE BOOK OF ZURICH
- Author
- Arnet, Edwin & Hans Kasser
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Artemis Publishing & Zurich Tourist Office
- Place of Publication
- Zurich
- Date Published
- 1954
- Keywords
- Zurich Switzerland Travel History
- Bookseller catalogs
- Travel;
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Carnegie Hill Books
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New York, New York
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Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- 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....
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- VG/VG
- Very Good Condition book with a Very Good Condition dust jacket. Very Good Condition indicates a used book that does show some...
- 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...
- 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...