Lampshade Making (A Mayflower handbook, hobbies)
by Dickson, Lucie
- Used
- Paperback
- first
- Condition
- VG/GD+/ND
- ISBN 10
- 0583196039
- ISBN 13
- 9780583196031
- Seller
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Salisbury, Wiltshire, United Kingdom
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About This Item
SOFTBACK SHIPPED FROM THE UK.* Edn: 1st. Thus.* Impression: 1st.* Date of Publication: 1970* Publisher: Mayflower Handbooks.* Binding and cover condition: Colour photo-illustrated soft card covers. No bumps, minor rubs. Some shelf wear to edges & corners. Creases & rubs to spine & hinge. Seems lightly-used. GD+* Contents condition: PRIVATE COPY NOT EX-LIBRARY. Clean, crisp, & tight. No annotations, inscriptions or marks to text, some paper colouration throughout particularly to all edges. VG* Illustrations: B/w line drawings throughout & one four page block of b/w photos.* Pages: 144 pp. text.* Product Description:- There are as many varieties of lampshade as there are ways of lighting a room. Depending on the shade, you can throw light up or down, direct it or diffuse it, match your furnishings or turn your room into a museum or weird contemporary shapes. Lucy Dickson tells about the numerous forms in lampshade making, and tells how to cover them in any material from silk to raffia.* This is a VG copy of the 1st./1st. thus with considerable shelf wear reducing it to GD+.*
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- Bookseller
- Cocksparrow Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1895
- Title
- Lampshade Making (A Mayflower handbook, hobbies)
- Author
- Dickson, Lucie
- Format/Binding
- Paperback
- Book Condition
- Used - VG/GD+/ND
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st. Edn, 1st. Imp.
- ISBN 10
- 0583196039
- ISBN 13
- 9780583196031
- Publisher
- HarperCollins Distribution Services
- Place of Publication
- London UK 144
- Date Published
- 1970-02-05
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