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The French Touch: Decoration and Design in the Most Beautiful Homes of France
by Saint Sauveur, Daphne De
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine in Very Good DJ
- ISBN 10
- 0821217127
- ISBN 13
- 9780821217122
- Seller
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Helena, Montana, United States
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About This Item
New York Graphic Society/ Little Brown, 1988. First edition. Hardcover. Near Fine in Very Good DJ. First American edition, near fine oversized blue cloth hardcover (10 by 10 1/2 aprrox) shows some mild shelf wear, touch of soil at page edges and some other very minor trace wear, in very good + dust jacket (price at flap) that shows touch of soil and edge wear that includes some wrinkling and couple of small closed tears at spine head. 240 pages beautifully illustrated in color. Still an attractive copy of this work that "..stresses the importance of local traditions in the fashioning of the French homeplace.
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- Bookseller
- Barker Books & Vintage
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 24530
- Title
- The French Touch: Decoration and Design in the Most Beautiful Homes of France
- Author
- Saint Sauveur, Daphne De
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine in Very Good DJ
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First edition
- ISBN 10
- 0821217127
- ISBN 13
- 9780821217122
- Publisher
- New York Graphic Society/ Little Brown
- Place of Publication
- New York, New York, U.s.a.
- Date Published
- 1988
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Barker Books & Vintage
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