Hawaiian Flowers & Flowering Trees
by Kuck, Loraine E. and Tongg, Richard C
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good+/Fair +
- Seller
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Hardwick, Massachusetts, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
Rutland, Vermont: Charles E. Tuttle Company, 1958 Orange and brown cloth with small tropical bloom emblem. "A guide to floral beauty found in many tropical and semitropical areas." With more than 140 full-color paintings. Portions of cover cloth corresponding to chips and tears at upper and lower margins of dust jacket are sunned. Light rubbing to cover extremities. Otherwise clean and tight in an intact but damaged dust jacket. Front panel of jacket has three irregular, jagged, 2"-3" tears and 1/2" semicircular closed tear at fore edge. Otherwise colorful and clean.
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Details
- Bookseller
- The Curiosity Book Shop (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 13004
- Title
- Hawaiian Flowers & Flowering Trees
- Author
- Kuck, Loraine E. and Tongg, Richard C
- Illustrator
- Yasutaro Oda, Charles Taketa, and Masakazu Kuwata
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good+
- Jacket Condition
- Fair +
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Charles E. Tuttle Company
- Place of Publication
- Rutland, Vermont
- Date Published
- 1958
Terms of Sale
The Curiosity Book Shop
Price includes Media Rate postage in U.S. Extra shipping costs quoted as needed. Returns within 10 days at buyer's expense; contact me first, please.
About the Seller
The Curiosity Book Shop
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Hardwick, Massachusetts
About The Curiosity Book Shop
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Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Fore Edge
- The portion of a book that is opposite the spine. That part of a book which faces the wall when shelved in a traditional...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Sunned
- Damage done to a book cover or dust jacket caused by exposure to direct sunlight. Very strong fluorescent light can cause slight...