The Toolbox Book
by Tolpin, Jim
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- VG+/F/F
- ISBN 10
- 1561580929
- ISBN 13
- 9781561580927
- Seller
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Salisbury, Wiltshire, United Kingdom
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About This Item
HARDBACK "UNCOMMON US PUBLICATION," SHIPPED FROM THE UK* Edition: 1st.* Impression: 2nd.* Date: 1995 (1995).* Pub: The Taunton Press. Inc.* Binding and cover condition: Dark maroon cloth covered boards with gilt title to spine strip and no title to face. No bumps, minor rubs to head & tail of spine, no other visible faults. VG++* Jacket condition: Colour photo-illustrated jacket in clear protective cover. White title to spine, yellow and white to face. Not price clipped showing a shelf price of $34.95. VG++ * Contents condition: Ex-Library copy with usual stamps and labels. Coloured end papers (light orange-brown). Clean, crisp, tight and bright with no reading wear, no marks to text, no tanning or other visible faults. Very slightly dusty to top edge. VG+* Illustrations: Numerous colour & b/w photo-illustrations within text throughout. Supported with a large number of b/w line drawings and diagrams.* Pages: 196 pp. text. iv pp. epilogue, index and notes at rear.* Description: The toolbox is a fundamental tool in any shop. Not only does a toolbox protect tools from damage and dust, it also organises them for efficient workflow and quick inventory. In this book, Jim Tolpin offers expert guidance on how to plan and build tool storage boxes, cabinets and totes. This book offers a wealth of new ideas for woodworkers. It is a fully illustrated guide to tool storage & features full-coloured plates of beautifully crafted and ingenious storage systems from a colonial carpenter's toolbox from the late 1700's to that in which the tools to repair the Hubble Space Telescope, were carried into space by the astronauts in 1993.* A NEAR VG++ ex-library copy of the 1st./2nd. with minor wear in a protected dust jacket.*
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- Seller
- Cocksparrow Books (GB)
- Seller's Inventory #
- 9382
- Title
- The Toolbox Book
- Author
- Tolpin, Jim
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - VG+/F/F
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edn, 2nd. Imp.
- ISBN 10
- 1561580929
- ISBN 13
- 9781561580927
- Publisher
- Taunton Press Inc
- Place of Publication
- Newtown, MA, USA 200
- Date Published
- 1995-09-30
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