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Bamboo
by Robert Austin
- Used
- Fine
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Fine/Fine
- Seller
-
Gleneden Beach, Oregon, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
New York: Weatherhill, 1970. Third Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Dana Levy. Beautiful Book, oversized 12 inches in height, Book and Jacket are Fine, No previous owner bookplate or writing, lime green cloth with embossed bamboo stalk, lovely with gilt titles to spine, sharp corners tight and square, endpapers are flawless green images of bamboo stocks. Jacket shows full color close up of a bamboo fence, Jacket is priced clipped, protected in a new mylar sleeve. Stated Third Printing, 211 pages heavily illustrated with wonderful Dana Levy images. A very clean and most presentable edition. ME. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Pacific Coast Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 001109
- Title
- Bamboo
- Author
- Robert Austin
- Illustrator
- Dana Levy
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Third Printing
- Publisher
- Weatherhill
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1970
- Keywords
- Bamboo
Terms of Sale
Pacific Coast Books
10 day return guarantee, with full refund including original shipping costs for up to 10 days after delivery if an item arrives mis-described or damaged.
About the Seller
Pacific Coast Books
Biblio member since 2015
Gleneden Beach, Oregon
About Pacific Coast Books
Pacific Coast Books specializes in quality of books of interest from our store on the Central Oregon Coast. We are proud members of the Antiquarian Booksellers Association of America and have been buying and selling books for almost 20 years. Visit our website at www.Pacifc CoastBooks.net. Please feel free to call or email with any titles you would like to add to your collection. Only a small fraction of our inventory is online. We buy book collections.
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- Gilt
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- Cloth
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- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Fine
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- Jacket
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