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Wallpaper in America: From the Seventeenth Century to World War I
by Lynn, Catherine
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good +/fair
- ISBN 10
- 0393014487
- ISBN 13
- 9780393014488
- Seller
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Newark, New Jersey, United States
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About This Item
New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 1980. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good +/fair. Small 4to. 534, [2] pp. Bound in full natural speckled cloth, stamped in gilt on cover and spine, in illustrated dust jacket. Black and white frontispiece illustrations and black and white and full-color illustrations throughout. Includes index. Near Fine, previous owner's name in ink to front free endpaper, minor soiling to corners, otherwise bright, tight copy, in Fair dust jacket with 2 1/2" long strip missing along lower edge of rear cover, 2" tear at tail of spine several other shorter tears and chipping to edges.
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- Bookseller
- Garnet Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 002295
- Title
- Wallpaper in America
- Author
- Lynn, Catherine
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good +
- Jacket Condition
- fair
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First edition
- ISBN 10
- 0393014487
- ISBN 13
- 9780393014488
- Publisher
- W. W. Norton & Company
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1980
- Bookseller catalogs
- Architecture;
Terms of Sale
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- First Edition
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- Tight
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- Jacket
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- Gilt
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- Cloth
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- Tail
- The heel of the spine.
- Fine
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