The Essential Japanese House: Craftsmanship, Function, And Style In Town And Country
by Itoh, Teiji
- Used
- Condition
- VG+/VG (light sunning to edges w/ crinkling to spine top. bump & crease to lower, front corner. dustjacket scuffed & scratched;
- Seller
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Columbia, Pennsylvania, United States
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About This Item
Tokyo / New York: John Weatherhill, Inc. / Harper & Row, 1967. Hardbound. VG+/VG (light sunning to edges w/ crinkling to spine top. bump & crease to lower, front corner. dustjacket scuffed & scratched; edge-wear w/ chip & tear to back upper edge; rubbing to corners & spine ends; flapped chipped). oatmeal cloth boards w/ brown embossed illustration; brown quarter cloth spine w/ gilt printing. BW illustrated dust jacket. 419 pp. Profusely illustrated in bw. Oversize. Lower textblock, at spine has a red star stamp. A nice copy. A copy of this important title on Japanese domestic architecture. Profuse illustrations by the photographer Yukio Futagawa.
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- Bookseller
- Mullen Books, Inc. ABAA / ILAB
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 35805
- Title
- The Essential Japanese House: Craftsmanship, Function, And Style In Town And Country
- Author
- Itoh, Teiji
- Format/Binding
- Hardbound
- Book Condition
- Used - VG+/VG (light sunning to edges w/ crinkling to spine top. bump & crease to lower, front corner. dustjacket scuffed & scratched;
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- John Weatherhill, Inc. / Harper & Row
- Place of Publication
- Tokyo / New York
- Date Published
- 1967
- Keywords
- Asian Architecture ; Japanese domestic architecture ; ;
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About the Seller
Mullen Books, Inc. ABAA / ILAB
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Columbia, Pennsylvania
About Mullen Books, Inc. ABAA / ILAB
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- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- Spine
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- Cloth
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- Edges
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- VG+/VG
- A book in slightly better than Very Good Condition with a Very Good Condition dust jacket. Very Good Condition indicates a used...
- 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...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
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