How to Know Oriental Rugs: A Handbook by Langton Mary Beach - 1904

D. Appleton and Company, 1904. Hardcover. Good. Hardcover. Pages are clean and unmarked. Covers show light edge wear with rubbing/light scuffing. Binding loosening slightly but still intact.; 100% Satisfaction Guaranteed! Ships same or next business day!

D. Appleton and Company, 1930. Hardcover. Good. 1930. 243 pages. No dust jacket. Blue pictorial cloth. Pages and binding are presentable with no major defects. Minor issues present such as mild cracking, inscriptions, inserts, light foxing, tanning and thumb marking. Overall a good condition item. Boards have mild shelf wear with light rubbing and corner bumping. Some light marking and tanning.

New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1908. 1st Edition Early Printing. Hardcover. Very Good. A handbook, still popular today more than a century after its first publication in 1904, that provides its readers with the basics they need to know about oriental rugs and how to recognize and identify individual types. About 5 1/4 x 7 3/4 inches, 243 pages bound in blue cloth-covered boards with a rug-like graphic design on the front cover with details repeated on spine. Title and author in gold lettering. No dustjacket. Title page notes 20 full-page illustrations with 12 in color. Boards and text are clean, complete and unmarked. Boards show just a touch of edgewear at spine ends, no other flaws or damage. A very nice copy of an early printing of this classic work.

New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1916. Hard Cover. Very Good +. Decorative coverboards with gilt lettering. No chips, tears, creases. Previous owners name written in pencil on front endpaper. Full colour Frontispiece partially separated from binding but still firmly in place. Eleven other full colour plates. Eight black and white illustrative plates. Map or Oriental Rug Countries. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.

New York: D. Appleton & Co.. Clean very good hard cover INSCRIBED by author. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall . Very Good. Hardcover. 1913.

New York: D. Appleton & Company. Near Fine. 1904. Hardcover. Hardcover, no dustjacket, excellent condition, the color-illustrated cloth cover looks new, the former owner's name label and blind-embossed name-stamp on the title page are the only remarkable flaws, "With twenty full-page illustrations, twelve being facsimile reproductions in colors," this nice gift copy includes an invoice dated Dec. 19, 1935 and a letter dated March 27th, 1936 from S. Nucho Oriental Rugs Company in Philadelphia to customers; 244 pages .

New York: D. Appleton & Co,, 1930. Later Edition . Cloth. Very Good. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Pictorial cloth, 244 pp, illus, index; little cocking to spine which shows light rubbing to letter stamping. [15]

D. Appleton and Company 1920. Octavo hardcover (VG); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently, they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book may reduce your overall postage costs.

New York: Appleton, 1904. First edition. Hardcover. Very good condition. 244p. Binding design by D. D.

New York: D. Appleton & Co., 1926. A lovely book, with gilt multicolored titles on black cloth. 20 illustrations, including 12 color plates. A fresh, sound copy.. Decorative Cloth Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. Octavo.