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GLASS TUMBLERS 1700-1900
by BROOKS, JOHN A
- Used
- Paperback
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- VG++/VG++/ND
- Seller
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Salisbury, Wiltshire, United Kingdom
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About This Item
SOFTBACK "RARE & AUTHOR SIGNED," SHIPPED FROM THE UK.* Edn: 1st. Thus.* Impression: 1st.* Date of Publication: 1987* Publisher: Privately Printed.* Binding and cover condition: Colour photo-illustrated soft card covers (glossy photo tipped onto cover). No bumps or rubs. Absolutely minimal shelf wear. No creases to spine. Seems lightly-used if at all. VG++* Contents condition: PRIVATE COPY NOT EX-LIBRARY. Author signed "With Complements" to inside of front cover. Clean, crisp, tight & bright. No annotations, inscriptions or marks to text, no tanning or other visible faults. VG++* Illustrations: B/w photos to virtually every page.* Pages: 32 pp. text.* Product Description:- With text by John A Brooks, a specialist writer on glass, this informative small softback is profusely illustrated with photographs of a number of superb examples of Regency and Victorian tumblers some with decorations but mostly engraved. A really important source of information for the collector in this specialist field of glass ware. Hard to come by and author signed as well.* This is a NEAR FINE AUTHOR SIGNED, copy of the 1st./1st. with absolutely minimal shelf wear.*
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- Bookseller
- Cocksparrow Books
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1395
- Title
- GLASS TUMBLERS 1700-1900
- Author
- BROOKS, JOHN A
- Format/Binding
- Paperback
- Book Condition
- Used - VG++/VG++/ND
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st. Edn. 1st. Imp.
- Publisher
- Privately published by the author
- Place of Publication
- Leicester UK 32
- Date Published
- 1987-01-01
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
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