Gunnar Asplund: A Great Modern Architect
by de Mare, Eric
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Good
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Chagrin Falls, Ohio, United States
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About This Item
Art and Technics, 1955. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. Very Good ; Good Jacket. 1955 Art and Technics, London. First Edition. "First published 1955 by Arts and Technics Ltd." on verso. Date on title page matches copyright on verso. No additional printings listed. NOT ex-library. Small hardcover has gray cloth-covered boards with gold spine lettering. Black and white illustrations. Black and white plates. Binding tight. Hinges NOT cracked. Spine ends lightly bumped. Pages lightly and uniformly tanned but still supple. Pages clean and unmarked. 96 pages. Pages 1-48 are text; remaining pages are plates. Dust jacket has light surface and edge wear, with chips at the corners and spine ends. Back panel of jacket has some rubbing and surface smudges. Spine slightly sunned. Dust jacket is NOT price clipped. Series: Architectural Biographies, vol. 5. Printed in Great Britain by the Shenval Press, Ltd. Carefully packed, shipped in a box.
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- SmarterRat Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 9216
- Title
- Gunnar Asplund: A Great Modern Architect
- Author
- de Mare, Eric
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Good
- Publisher
- Art and Technics
- Date Published
- 1955
- Keywords
- Architecture,Biography
- Bookseller catalogs
- Biography; Architecture;
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- Cracked
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- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Sunned
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- 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....
- Rubbing
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- Verso
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