Japanese Porcelain
by Soames Jenyns
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0571064469
- ISBN 13
- 9780571064465
- Seller
-
Gloucestershire, Gloucestershire, United Kingdom
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
London: Faber and Faber, 1979. Lemon yellow cloth with gilt letterd spine, in colour photo illustrated dustwrapper.xiii, 352 text pages, 4 colour plates and numerous monochrome photos on a section of 120 plates after the text. Folding map at the end of the book.6.4 X 10 inches, Very good book with original owner's name at the top of the front free endpaper, and some occasional underlinig and a few marginal notes.Some spotting to fore edge of pages, in a very good dustwrapper, with a little edge wear to corners and spine ends, original price unclipped on front fold.The dustwrapper is in a clear plastic paperlined removeable protective jacket.. Reprint. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Jacques Gander
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 009821
- Title
- Japanese Porcelain
- Author
- Soames Jenyns
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Edition
- Reprint
- ISBN 10
- 0571064469
- ISBN 13
- 9780571064465
- Publisher
- Faber and Faber
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1979
Terms of Sale
Jacques Gander
Books are returnable if found not to be as described, with prior notice.
About the Seller
Jacques Gander
Biblio member since 2004
Gloucestershire, Gloucestershire
About Jacques Gander
Out of print, rare and used books. Internet and mail order.
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- Reprint
- Any printing of a book which follows the original edition. By definition, a reprint is not a first edition.
- Spine
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- Cloth
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- 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...
- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
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